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Can I run Phi-3.5-vision-instruct on an RTX 3060 12 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (8.29 GB) fit in the 10.8 GB an RTX 3060 12 GB can use, with room for ≈ 6K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Phi-3.5-vision-instruct Everything that runs on RTX 3060 12 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on RTX 3060 12 GB

Each file of Phi-3.5-vision-instruct (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 3060 12 GB Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published8.29 GBFits6K12K
4-bit (estimate)2.33 GBFits21K42K

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct on other hardware

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