AI models on a 6 GB graphics card
Open chat models judged for a PC card with 6 GB of video memory: which fit with every part on the card, the size to download, and what each one takes.
2036 of the 3940 chat models people download as GGUF fit a 6 GB card whole. The best-rated is Gemma 3n E4B at Q4_1, which takes 5 GB. The largest rated model that fits is Granite 4.2 8B (8.8B).
Cards with 6 GB: GeForce RTX 2060, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce RTX 3050 6GB, GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. The same answer holds for any card with 6 GB of its own memory.
The best-rated models that fit
The 18 with the highest LM Arena rating (data, CC BY 4.0) that fit at 4 bits a weight or more, each at the most bits that fits. Below 4 bits a model's rating overstates it. Each model's page hands it to LM Studio, Jan, Ollama and llama.cpp.
| Model | Size | Fit | Takes | Longest chat | Arena | Arena coding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 3n E4BGoogle · 6.9B | Q4_14.6 GB · unsloth | Fits with room | 5 GB | 32K | 1318 | 1307 |
| Granite 4.1 8BIBM · 8.8B | Q3_K_L4.7 GB · ibm-granite | Fits | 5.6 GB | 8K | 1304 | 1353 |
| Gemma 3 4BGoogle · 3.9B | Q6_K_L3.4 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 5.1 GB | 128K | 1303 | 1273 |
| Granite 4.2 8BIBM · 8.8B | Q3_K_L4.7 GB · ibm-granite | Fits | 5.6 GB | 8K | 1290 | 1370 |
| Granite 4.2 3BIBM · 3.7B | Q8_03.9 GB · ibm-granite | Fits with room | 4.8 GB | 16K | 1290 | 1378 |
| Aya Expanse 8BCohere · 8B | IQ3_M4 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 4.7 GB | 8K | 1223 | 1255 |
| Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8BAi2 · 8B | Q3_K_L4.3 GB · lmstudio-community | Fits with room | 5.1 GB | 8K | 1221 | |
| Llama 3.1 8BMeta · 8B | Q3_K_M4 GB · unsloth | Fits with room | 4.7 GB | 8K | 1211 | 1259 |
| Granite 3.1 8BIBM · 8.2B | Q3_K_M4 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 4.9 GB | 8K | 1209 | |
| Gemma 2 2BGoogle · 2.6B | Q8_02.8 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 3.3 GB | 8K | 1200 | 1191 |
| Granite 3.1 2BIBM · 2.5B | Q8_02.7 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 4.4 GB | 32K | 1179 | 1249 |
| Llama 3.2 3BMeta · 3.2B | Q8_03.4 GB · unsloth | Fits with room | 4.6 GB | 16K | 1167 | 1176 |
| Mistral 7B V0.2Mistral AI · 7.2B | Q4_K_M4.4 GB · TheBloke | Fits with room | 5.1 GB | 8K | 1149 | 1186 |
| Phi 3 Mini 128KMicrosoft · 3.8B | Q6_K3.1 GB · QuantFactory | Fits with room | 5.1 GB | 8K | 1130 | 1155 |
| Phi 3 Mini 4KMicrosoft · 3.8B | Q8_04.1 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 5.1 GB | 4K | 1128 | 1187 |
| SmolLM2 1.7BHugging Face · 1.7B | Q8_01.8 GB · bartowski | Fits with room | 2.9 GB | 8K | 1115 | |
| Llama 3.2 1BMeta · 1.2B | Q8_01.3 GB · unsloth | Fits with room | 3.9 GB | 128K | 1111 | 1149 |
| Chatglm3 6BZ.ai · 6.2B | Q5_K_M4.7 GB · mradermacher | Fits with room | 5 GB | 8K | 1057 | 1090 |
The chat models Outmake picks
9 of these 28 fit. Their memory is what llama.cpp's own calculator reported for each size, not an estimate.
| Model | Size | Fit | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|
| K2-Horizon 7BInstitute of Foundation Models · 9B | Q3_K_M4.4 GB | Fits with room | 5.0 GB |
| K2-Horizon 3.7BInstitute of Foundation Models · 5.1B | Q6_K4.4 GB | Fits with room | 5.0 GB |
| Qwen3.5 9BAlibaba Qwen · 9B | Q3_K_M5.6 GB | Fits | 5.9 GB |
| Gemma 4 E4BGoogle · 8B | Q4_K_S5.8 GB | Fits | 5.8 GB |
| Gemma 4 E2BGoogle · 5.1B | Q4_K_M4.1 GB | Fits with room | 4.1 GB |
| Qwen3.5 4BAlibaba Qwen · 4B | Q6_K4.2 GB | Fits with room | 4.9 GB |
| Qwen3.5 2BAlibaba Qwen · 2B | Q6_K2.2 GB | Fits with room | 3.6 GB |
| Qwen3.5 0.8BAlibaba Qwen · 0.8B | Q6_K0.8 GB | Fits with room | 2.4 GB |
| Gemma 4 12BGoogle · 12B | UD-Q2_K_XL4.8 GB | Fits | 5.9 GB |
| GPT-OSS 20BOpenAI · 21B, 3.6B active | Q3_K_M12 GB | Bigger than the card | 13 GB |
| Devstral Small 2 24BMistral AI · 24B | Q3_K_M12 GB | Bigger than the card | 24 GB |
| Gemma 4 26BGoogle · 26B, 3.8B active | UD-Q3_K_M14 GB | Bigger than the card | 16 GB |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba Qwen · 28B | UD-IQ4_XS15 GB | Bigger than the card | 25 GB |
| Gemma 4 31BGoogle · 31B | Q3_K_M16 GB | Bigger than the card | 24 GB |
| GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai · 31B, 3B active | IQ4_XS16 GB | Bigger than the card | 20 GB |
| K2-Horizon 36BInstitute of Foundation Models · 37B, 4B active | Q3_K_M17 GB | Bigger than the card | 46 GB |
| Qwen3.6 35BAlibaba Qwen · 36B, 3B active | UD-IQ4_XS19 GB | Bigger than the card | 20 GB |
| Qwen3.5 122BAlibaba Qwen · 122B, 10B active | UD-Q3_K_XL58 GB | Bigger than the card | 62 GB |
| GPT-OSS 120BOpenAI · 117B, 5.1B active | UD-Q4_K_XL63 GB | Bigger than the card | 65 GB |
| Qwen3.8 Flash NextAlibaba Qwen · 177B, 6B active | UD-Q3_K_XL91 GB | Bigger than the card | 91 GB |
| MiniMax M2.7MiniMax · 229B, 10B active | UD-Q3_K_XL102 GB | Bigger than the card | 120 GB |
| Qwen3.5 397BAlibaba Qwen · 403B, 17B active | UD-IQ2_M124 GB | Bigger than the card | 129 GB |
| DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek · 284B, 13B active | UD-Q3_K_XL128 GB | Bigger than the card | 129 GB |
| GLM 5.3Z.AI · 754B, 40B active | UD-Q2_K_XL254 GB | Bigger than the card | 265 GB |
| Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI · 1T, 32B active | UD-Q2_K_XL341 GB | Bigger than the card | 351 GB |
| Kimi K3Moonshot AI · 2.8T, 104B active | UD-IQ2_XXS712 GB | Bigger than the card | 716 GB |
| Qwen3.8 2.4TAlibaba Qwen · 2.4T, 95B active | UD-IQ2_XS731 GB | Bigger than the card | 736 GB |
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek · 1.6T, 49B active | UD-Q4_K_XL850 GB | Bigger than the card | 851 GB |
How this is worked out
A model fits when its weights, its memory of the chat so far and the engine's own share come to 5.5 GB or less: 92% of the card, with the rest left for the screen. "Fits with room" is under 80%. "Tight fit" is anything up to half a gigabyte short of the whole card: close other programs that draw with the card first.
"Bigger than the card" does not mean it won't run. llama.cpp and the apps built on it put what doesn't fit in ordinary memory and the model answers slower, often several times slower. So this page lists what fits whole.
There are no speeds here. Outmake's speed estimates are fitted to measurements on Apple chips, and no PC has been measured yet, so a number would be a guess. Memory was checked against the catalog of November 4, 2026; which cards have 6 GB against each maker's specification page on October 13, 2026.