Phi-4 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM

✅ Runs (tight) — Phi-4 14B @ Q4_K_M
Phi-4 14B at Q4_K_M needs ~10.5 GB (weights 8.4 GB + KV 1.6 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 10.8 GB usable VRAM — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~14–25 tok/s (usable).
context @ Q4_K_M: runs to its full 16K
quantneedsspeed
~ Q8_016.8 GB—
~ Q5_K_M11.9 GB~4–6 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q4_K_M10.5 GB~14–25 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q3_K_M8.9 GB~16–25 tok/s (fast)
$runlocal install phi4:14b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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Phi-4: Runs (tight)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Gemma 3

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