Which AI models can the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run?

Every model we track, checked against the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at 8K context.

ModelRuns?Best fit
Llama 3.2 1BYesFP16 · ~3.3 GB · ~108 tok/s
Llama 3.2 3BYesFP16 · ~8 GB · ~42 tok/s
Llama 3.1 8BYesQ8_0 · ~10.2 GB · ~32 tok/s
Llama 3.1 70BNoNeeds ~46.1 GB at Q4_K_M; 16 GB available
Qwen2.5 7BYesQ8_0 · ~9.2 GB · ~33 tok/s
Qwen2.5 14BYesQ6_K · ~14.3 GB · ~22 tok/s
Qwen2.5 32BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~15 GB · ~22 tok/s
Qwen2.5 72BNoNeeds ~47.4 GB at Q4_K_M; 16 GB available
Qwen3 8BYesQ8_0 · ~10.5 GB · ~31 tok/s
Qwen3 30B-A3BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~12.8 GB · ~217 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~15 GB · ~22 tok/s
Mistral 7B v0.3YesQ8_0 · ~9.4 GB · ~35 tok/s
Mistral Nemo 12BYesQ8_0 · ~14.9 GB · ~21 tok/s
Mistral Small 24BYes, with heavy quantizationQ3_K_M · ~13.5 GB · ~23 tok/s
Mixtral 8x7BNoNeeds ~30 GB at Q4_K_M; 16 GB available
Gemma 2 9BYesQ8_0 · ~13.2 GB · ~27 tok/s
Gemma 2 27BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~13.9 GB · ~26 tok/s
Gemma 3 4BYesFP16 · ~10.3 GB · ~31 tok/s
Gemma 3 12BYesQ6_K · ~13.8 GB · ~27 tok/s
Gemma 3 27BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~15 GB · ~26 tok/s
Phi-3.5 Mini 3.8BYesFP16 · ~11.5 GB · ~35 tok/s
Phi-4 14BYesQ6_K · ~14.3 GB · ~22 tok/s
Qwen3 4BYesFP16 · ~9.8 GB · ~33 tok/s
Qwen3 14BYesQ6_K · ~14.1 GB · ~22 tok/s
Qwen3 32BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~15 GB · ~22 tok/s
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3BYes, with heavy quantizationQ2_K · ~12.8 GB · ~217 tok/s
gpt-oss 20BYesQ5_K_M · ~15.9 GB · ~105 tok/s
gpt-oss 120BNoNeeds ~72 GB at Q4_K_M; 16 GB available
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16ENoNeeds ~68.3 GB at Q4_K_M; 16 GB available
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