RTX 3060 12GB vs RTX 4060 for local LLMs

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Every model, side by side

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Model	RTX 3060 12GB	RTX 4060
Qwen3 0.6B	FP16 · ~144 tok/s	FP16 · ~109 tok/s
Gemma 3 1B	FP16 · ~108 tok/s	FP16 · ~82 tok/s
Llama 3.2 1B	FP16 · ~87 tok/s	FP16 · ~66 tok/s
Qwen3 1.7B	FP16 · ~53 tok/s	FP16 · ~40 tok/s
Llama 3.2 3B	FP16 · ~34 tok/s	FP16 · ~25 tok/s
Phi-3.5 Mini 3.8B	FP16 · ~28 tok/s	Q8_0 · ~40 tok/s
Phi-4 Mini 3.8B	FP16 · ~28 tok/s	Q8_0 · ~40 tok/s
Qwen3 4B	FP16 · ~27 tok/s	Q8_0 · ~38 tok/s
Gemma 3 4B	FP16 · ~25 tok/s	Q8_0 · ~36 tok/s
Mistral 7B v0.3	Q8_0 · ~28 tok/s	Q6_K · ~27 tok/s
Qwen2.5 7B	Q8_0 · ~27 tok/s	Q6_K · ~26 tok/s
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B	Q8_0 · ~27 tok/s	Q6_K · ~26 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B	Q8_0 · ~27 tok/s	Q6_K · ~26 tok/s
Llama 3.1 8B	Q8_0 · ~25 tok/s	Q5_K_M · ~29 tok/s
Granite 3.3 8B	Q8_0 · ~25 tok/s	Q5_K_M · ~28 tok/s
Qwen3 8B	Q8_0 · ~25 tok/s	Q5_K_M · ~28 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B	Q8_0 · ~25 tok/s	Q5_K_M · ~28 tok/s
Gemma 2 9B	Q6_K · ~29 tok/s	Q3_K_M · ~36 tok/s
Gemma 4 12B	Q6_K · ~22 tok/s	Q3_K_M · ~28 tok/s
Mistral Nemo 12B	Q6_K · ~22 tok/s	Q3_K_M · ~27 tok/s
Gemma 3 12B	Q6_K · ~22 tok/s	Q3_K_M · ~27 tok/s
Qwen2.5 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~30 tok/s
Phi-4 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~30 tok/s
Phi-4 Reasoning 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~30 tok/s
Qwen3 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~29 tok/s
Qwen2.5 Coder 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~29 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B	Q4_K_M · ~24 tok/s	Q2_K · ~29 tok/s
gpt-oss 20B	Q3_K_M · ~123 tok/s	Too big
Mistral Small 24B	Q2_K · ~24 tok/s	Too big
Devstral Small 24B	Q2_K · ~24 tok/s	Too big
Magistral Small 24B	Q2_K · ~24 tok/s	Too big
Mistral Small 3.2 24B	Q2_K · ~24 tok/s	Too big
Gemma 4 26B-A4B	Q2_K · ~152 tok/s	Too big
Gemma 2 27B	Too big	Too big
Gemma 3 27B	Q2_K · ~21 tok/s	Too big
Qwen3.8 27B	Q2_K · ~21 tok/s	Too big
Qwen3.6 27B	Q2_K · ~21 tok/s	Too big
Qwen3 30B-A3B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B	Too big	Too big
GLM-4.7 Flash 30B-A3B	Too big	Too big
Gemma 4 31B	Too big	Too big
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B	Too big	Too big
Qwen2.5 32B	Too big	Too big
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3 32B	Too big	Too big
QwQ 32B	Too big	Too big
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B	Too big	Too big
Mixtral 8x7B	Too big	Too big
Llama 3.1 70B	Too big	Too big
Llama 3.3 70B	Too big	Too big
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	Too big	Too big
Qwen2.5 72B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3 Coder Next 80B-A3B	Too big	Too big
GLM-4.5-Air 106B-A12B	Too big	Too big
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E	Too big	Too big
gpt-oss 120B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3.8 Flash Next	Too big	Too big
Qwen3 235B-A22B	Too big	Too big
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B	Too big	Too big
GLM-5.3 Flash 320B-A18B	Too big	Too big
MiniMax M3 428B-A23B	Too big	Too big
GLM-5 744B-A40B	Too big	Too big
GLM-5.3	Too big	Too big
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	Too big	Too big
Mistral Large 4 1T-A52B	Too big	Too big
DeepSeek V4 Pro 1.6T-A49B	Too big	Too big
Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B	Too big	Too big
Kimi K3.1 Pro 2.8T-A104B	Too big	Too big

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