§01·spec · /gpus

RTX 3060

Name: RTX 3060 local AI benchmarks
Creator: Smeltcore
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

nvidia30 series12GB VRAM

32 open-weights AI models run on the RTX 3060 — see which fit, how fast they go, and the VRAM each needs.

§02·models that run on this GPU

32 total

LLM · 5

Model	Best speed	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
gpt-oss 20B	64tokens/s	12GB	✓	1benchrecipe	check ↗
Qwen3-8B	55.2tokens/s	12GB	✓	2benchesrecipe	check ↗
Llama 3.1 8B	52.2tokens/s	10GB	✓	2benchesrecipe	check ↗
Qwen3 14B	31.2tokens/s	12GB	✓	2benchesrecipe	check ↗
Ornith 1.0 9B		12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

Multimodal · 2

Model	Best speed	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
Gemma 4 E4B-IT	45tokens/s	6GB	✓	1benchrecipe	check ↗
MiniMind-O		4GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

Image · 10

Model	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
Anima	7GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Chroma V48	11GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
ERNIE-Image-Turbo	10GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Flux.2-Klein-4B	8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
HiDream-O1-Image	10GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Juggernaut Z	12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Krea 2	12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Qwen-Image	12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
SD1.5	4GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
SenseNova U1	12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

Video · 2

Model	Best speed	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
LightX2V		12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
WAN 2.2		8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

3D · 1

Model	Best speed	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
Hunyuan3D		10GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

TTS · 10

Model	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
ACE-Step 1.5 XL	8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Foundation-1	8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Kokoro TTS	2GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
MOSS-Audio	12GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
OmniVoice	4GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
OpenAudio S1 Mini	5GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Qwen3-TTS	8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
VoxCPM	5GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
VoxCPM2	8GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
Voxtral Mini 3B	10GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

specialized · 2

Model	Best speed	Min VRAM	Works	Evidence
KiMoDo		3GB	✓	recipe	check ↗
SAM 3		4GB	✓	recipe	check ↗

§03·tested recipes

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