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Can I run SmolLM3-3B on an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (6.15 GB) fit in the 14.4 GB an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 64K tokens of context.

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Files and context on RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

Each file of SmolLM3-3B (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

FileSizeOn RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published6.15 GBFits64K64K
4-bit (estimate)1.73 GBFits64K64K

SmolLM3-3B on other hardware

Popular models that run on RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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