01.AI on NVIDIA Ampere

Can I run Yi-1.5 34B on an RTX 3060 12GB?

Not at Q4_K_M — it needs 22.2 GB against 10.5 GB available. You would need 3 of these cards.

Won't fit

22.2 GB of 10.5 GB · 212%
023 GB
Weights 19.5 GB
KV cache 1.9 GB
Runtime overhead 0.9 GB
Over the limit 11.8 GB

Short by 11.8 GB. You can run it with 23 of 60 layers on the RTX 3060 12GB and the rest in system RAM, at roughly 2.85 tok/s — usable for batch work, painful for chat. A smaller quantisation or a shorter context is usually the better trade.

Generation2.85tok/s
Prompt processing153tok/s
Max context0tokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Yi-1.5 34B on a RTX 3060 12GB

Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 64.1 GB 66.8 GB Won't fit — 0.68
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 33.8 GB 36.6 GB Won't fit — 1.40
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 33.8 GB 36.6 GB Won't fit — 1.40
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 32.0 GB 34.8 GB Won't fit — 1.50
Q6_K 6.56 26.3 GB 29.0 GB Won't fit — 1.91
Q5_K_M 5.67 22.7 GB 25.5 GB Won't fit — 2.33
Q5_K_S 5.52 22.1 GB 24.9 GB Won't fit — 2.39
Q4_K_M 4.85 19.5 GB 22.2 GB Won't fit — 2.85
Q4_K_S 4.58 18.4 GB 21.2 GB Won't fit — 3.13
Q4_0 4.55 18.3 GB 21.1 GB Won't fit — 3.15
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit — 3.16
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit — 3.16
MXFP4 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit — 3.16
IQ4_XS 4.25 17.2 GB 19.9 GB Won't fit — 3.50
Q3_K_M 3.91 15.8 GB 18.6 GB Won't fit — 3.95
IQ3_M 3.70 15.0 GB 17.8 GB Won't fit — 4.25
IQ3_XXS 3.06 12.5 GB 15.3 GB Won't fit — 6.02
Q2_K 2.63 10.8 GB 13.6 GB Won't fit — 7.98
IQ2_XXS 2.06 8.6 GB 11.4 GB Won't fit 4K 15.2
IQ1_M 1.75 7.4 GB 10.2 GB Fits, but tight 9K 26.7

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