Can I run LFM3-1.7B-GGUF on an RTX 3060 12 GB?

Yes

Its BF16 file (3.47 GB) fits in the 10.8 GB an RTX 3060 12 GB can use, with room for ≈ 256K tokens of context.

Full analysis of LFM3-1.7B-GGUF Everything that runs on RTX 3060 12 GB Get the BF16 file on Hugging Face

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Files and context on RTX 3060 12 GB

Each file of LFM3-1.7B-GGUF (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.

File	Size	On RTX 3060 12 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
BF16	3.47 GB	Fits	256K	256K
F16	3.47 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q8_0	1.85 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q6_K	1.43 GB	Fits	256K	256K
LFM3-1.7B-NVFP4	1.28 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_K_M	1.26 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_K_M	1.10 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_0	1.05 GB	Fits	256K	256K

LFM3-1.7B-GGUF on other hardware

Popular models that run on RTX 3060 12 GB

Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.