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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

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0N/A
Q4_K_MN/A
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Meta30B params

Muse Glimmer 30B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Meta8B params

Llama-3.1 8B (Instruct)

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params

Qwen3.6-27B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params

Qwen3.8-27B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)35B params

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)32B params

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Mistral AI7B params

Mistral 7B v0.3

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Mistral AI46.7B params

Mixtral 8x7B v0.1

FP16OOM
Q8_0OOM
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Mistral AI22B params

Codestral 22B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Mistral AI3B params

Ministral 3 3B (Instruct)

FP16Fits in VRAM
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Mistral AI8B params

Ministral 3 8B

FP16Fits in VRAM
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Mistral AI14B params

Ministral 3 14B

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Google2.3B params

Gemma 4 E2B

FP16Fits in VRAM
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Google4.5B params

Gemma 4 E4B

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0Fits in VRAM
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Google11.95B params

Gemma 4 12B

FP16CPU Offload
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MFits in VRAM
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Google25.2B params

Gemma 4 26B A4B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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Google30.7B params

Gemma 4 31B

FP16OOM
Q8_0CPU Offload
Q4_K_MCPU Offload
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OpenAI21B params

gpt-oss-20b

FP16Fits in VRAM
Q8_0N/A
Q4_K_MN/A
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