NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VRAM
6 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
168
GB/S
MODELS Q4
194/428
45%
7B Q4 SPEED
~19
GOOD
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q445% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~45
TOK/S
7B
~19
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
6 GB
BANDWIDTH
168 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
6.8 TFLOPS
TDP
70W
MEMORY
GDDR6
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
CUDA CORES
2,304
TENSOR CORES
72
PCIE
Gen 4 x8
MSRP
$169
104
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
194
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
194
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 194
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1493
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
1344
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1084
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
996
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
525
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
498
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
441
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
401
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
401
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
401
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
390
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
384
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
373
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
269
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
269
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
269
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
269
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
237
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
237
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
224
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
224
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
224
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
224
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
192
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
174
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
168
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
149
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
134
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
134
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
134
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
122
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
112
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
112
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
112
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
112
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
103
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
103
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
103
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
103
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
103
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB6 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE RTX 3050 6 GB SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
6 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH
168 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
6.8 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
6.8 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
2,304
TENSOR CORES
72
TDP
70 W
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
MSRP
$169
▸ AI CAPABILITY
194/ 428 models @ Q4

With 6 GB VRAM and 168 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 8B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~19 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE RTX 3050 6 GB
194 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Aya Expanse 8B8B5.4 GB1727.8
Cogito 8B8B5.4 GB1717.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8B5.4 GB1736.2
Gemma 3n E4B8B5.4 GB1728.8
Granite 3.3 8B8B5.4 GB1724.6
Llama-3.1-8B8B5.4 GB1723.5
Dolphin Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB1723.8
Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB1737.3
Tulu 3 8B8B5.4 GB1731.5
Ministral-8B8B5.4 GB1719.3
Nemotron-H 8B8B5.4 GB1778.4
Granite 8B8B5.4 GB1726.1
InternVL2 8B8B5.4 GB1744.6
MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B8B5.4 GB1740.8
RNJ-1 8B8B5.4 GB1753.5
Gemma 4 E4B8B5.4 GB1732.1
InternLM3 8B Instruct8B5.4 GB1738.7
Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct8B5.4 GB1726.4
Qwen3-Embedding 8B8B5.4 GB17
Granite 4.1 8B8B5.4 GB1725.1