Can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run Llama 3.1 70B?

70B parameter LLM model on 8GB GDDR6

No — not enough VRAM
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VRAM Requirements

Llama 3.1 70B is a 70B parameter model. At full precision (FP16), it requires 140GB of VRAM. Your NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB only has 8GB — not enough even at maximum compression.

FP16 (Full Precision)140GB (need 132GB more)

Maximum quality, no quantization

Q8 (8-bit)70GB (need 62GB more)

Near-lossless, ~50% size reduction

Q4 (4-bit)40GB (need 32GB more)

Good quality, ~75% size reduction

Your GPU VRAM: 8GB GDDR6 at 288 GB/s bandwidth
Recommended system RAM: 32GB DDR5 (2x GPU VRAM minimum for model overflow)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Specs

VRAM8GB GDDR6
Memory Bandwidth288 GB/s
TDP160W
CUDA Cores4,352
Street Price~$370
AI Rating3/10

About Llama 3.1 70B

Frontier-class open LLM. Q4 fits on dual 24GB GPUs or a single 48GB card.

Category: LLM · Parameters: 70B · CUDA required: No (runs via llama.cpp/GGUF)