Can NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB run Llama, Qwen & DeepSeek? 183 models that fit

183 of the 396 models in the Spanvero catalog fit NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB's 8 GB VRAM (at a sensible quant, 16k context). For each: run it locally ($0 compute + electricity), rent an equivalent GPU ($0 markup, as of 2026-07-02), or pay per-token via your own API key (as of 2026-07-06).

Three honest ways to run each model on NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB

• Run it locally: $0 in compute — you pay only electricity (~115 W under load on this card). Local is real money, never a fake "$0".
• Rent an equivalent GPU: from a $0-markup vendor rate (as of 2026-07-02) — you rent on your own account and pay the vendor directly; we never resell compute.
• Skip the box: run the same model through your own API key, paying per million tokens (prices as of 2026-07-06).

What fits NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB (8 GB VRAM)

• 183 of the 396 notable models in the Spanvero catalog fit NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB at a sensible quant (context capped at 16k for the estimate). Most capable first:
• internlm3 8b instruct (internlm, 8.8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1909/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B Base (nvidia, 8.5B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1857/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LFM2.5 8B A1B (LiquidAI, 8.5B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1857/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LFM2 8B A1B (LiquidAI, 8.3B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1822/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• MiniCPM4.1 8B (openbmb, 8.2B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1804/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• granite 3.0 8b instruct (ibm-granite, 8.2B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1804/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.03/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct (Alibaba, 8B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Hermes 3 — Llama 3.1 8B (Nous Research, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Abliterated) (mlabonne (community), 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LLaDA 8B Instruct (GSAI-ML, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Dolphin 3.0 — Llama 3.1 8B (Cognitive Computations, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B (deepseek-ai, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• saiga llama3 8b (IlyaGusev, 8B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (unsloth, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LLaDA 1.5 (GSAI-ML, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct (NousResearch, 8B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (NousResearch, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (unsloth, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LLaDA 8B Base (GSAI-ML, 8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.1769/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).

• internlm3 8b instruct — full cost breakdown
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B Base — full cost breakdown
• LFM2.5 8B A1B — full cost breakdown
• LFM2 8B A1B — full cost breakdown
• MiniCPM4.1 8B — full cost breakdown
• granite 3.0 8b instruct — full cost breakdown
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Hermes 3 — Llama 3.1 8B — full cost breakdown
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Abliterated) — full cost breakdown
• LLaDA 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Dolphin 3.0 — Llama 3.1 8B — full cost breakdown
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B — full cost breakdown
• saiga llama3 8b — full cost breakdown
• Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• LLaDA 1.5 — full cost breakdown
• Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• LLaDA 8B Base — full cost breakdown

The honest cost of owning NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB

• The full ownership math for this card — its dated street price, 3-year amortization, electricity, and the own-vs-rent break-evens — lives on the dedicated NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB GPU page (linked under "Keep exploring" below), so those numbers are published once, in one place.

Too big for NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB — rent or use an API instead

• These need more than the 8 GB VRAM on this card. Closest first — you can still run them on a rented GPU ($0 markup) or via your own API key:
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking (JetBrains, 12.1B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Base (JetBrains, 12.1B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gemma 2 9b it (unsloth, 9.2B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Gemma 2 9B Instruct (Google, 9B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.06/1M via your own API key (last-known).
• granite 4.1 8b (ibm-granite, 8.8B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.08/1M via your own API key.
• llm jp 4 8b thinking (llm-jp, 8.6B) — needs ~9 GB; rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr, or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).

Keep exploring

• NVIDIA RTX 4060 8GB — rent rates, own-vs-rent math & what fits
• Check a different GPU or Mac
• All GPUs — rental rates compared
• Free cost calculator — local vs rent vs API
• All models — the real cost to run each
• How we stay honest

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