Dedicated GPU Setup
Best local text models for 16gb vram
If you are searching for the best text model for 16GB VRAM, this compatibility index displays all open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that fit your system at a baseline context length of 8,192 tokens. Compare quantization formats (FP16, Q8, Q4) to prevent CUDA OOM crashes.
Supported GPU Configurations & Tiers:
NVIDIA RTX 4080NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD RX 7800 XT
Compatible Local LLMs (19)
DeepSeek16B params
DeepSeek V2 Lite
Meta30B params
Muse Glimmer 30B
Meta8B params
Llama-3.1 8B (Instruct)
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params
Qwen3.6-27B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params
Qwen3.8-27B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)35B params
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)32B params
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B
Mistral AI7B params
Mistral 7B v0.3
Mistral AI46.7B params
Mixtral 8x7B v0.1
Mistral AI22B params
Codestral 22B
Mistral AI3B params
Ministral 3 3B (Instruct)
Mistral AI8B params
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI14B params
Ministral 3 14B
Google2.3B params
Gemma 4 E2B
Google4.5B params
Gemma 4 E4B
Google11.95B params
Gemma 4 12B
Google25.2B params
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google30.7B params
Gemma 4 31B
OpenAI21B params