NVIDIA· TURING

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VRAM
12 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
336
GB/S
MODELS Q4
250/428
58%
7B Q4 SPEED
~38
FAST
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q458% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~90
TOK/S
7B
~38
TOK/S
14B
~19
TOK/S
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
12 GB
BANDWIDTH
336 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
14.4 TFLOPS
TDP
184W
MEMORY
GDDR6
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
CUDA CORES
2,176
TENSOR CORES
272
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
MSRP
$140
211
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
250
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
250
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 250
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
2987
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
2688
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2168
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
1991
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1050
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
996
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
881
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
802
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
802
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
802
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
779
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
768
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
747
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
538
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
538
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
538
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
538
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
473
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
473
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
448
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
448
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
448
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
448
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
384
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
347
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
336
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
299
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
269
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
269
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
269
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
244
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
224
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
224
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
224
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
224
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
207
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
207
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
207
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
207
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
207
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB12 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE RTX 2060 12 GB SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
12 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH
336 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
14.4 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
7.2 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
2,176
TENSOR CORES
272
TDP
184 W
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
MSRP
$140
▸ AI CAPABILITY
250/ 428 models @ Q4

With 12 GB VRAM and 336 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 16.8B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~38 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE RTX 2060 12 GB
250 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B10.8 GB112
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B10.3 GB11238.0
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B10.1 GB11243.0
DeepSeek-VL2 Small 16B15.7B10.1 GB11243.1
StarCoder 15B15.5B10.0 GB1721.0
StarCoder2 15B15B9.7 GB1826.5
Phi-4-reasoning-vision 15B15B9.7 GB1842.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B9.5 GB1843.9
DeepCoder 14B14.8B9.5 GB1838.7
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B9.5 GB1841.3
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B9.5 GB1841.3
Qwen3 14B14.8B9.5 GB1845.7
Ministral 3 14B14B9.0 GB1925.9
Phi-3-medium-14b14B9.0 GB1933.7
phi-4 14B14B9.0 GB1933.7
Phi-4-reasoning 14B14B9.0 GB1933.7
Phi-4-multimodal 14B14B9.0 GB1942.0
Qwen 1.5 14B14B9.0 GB1941.3
InternVL3 14B14B9.0 GB1938.1
LLaVA-1.5 13B13.1B8.5 GB2152.1