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DeepSeek V3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB cannot run DeepSeek V3 at any quantization level. The 8 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

671B

Device VRAM

8 GB

Bandwidth

272 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows DeepSeek V3 performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q2_K✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q2_K

671B parameter model. Cloud/inference API only.

About DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3 (671B) is a chat, coding, ai coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Massive MoE model rivaling GPT-4 class. Only ~37B parameters active per token despite 671B total. Requires multi-GPU or very large unified memory (128GB+ Apple Silicon at Q2/Q3). Not for casual home use — included for completeness and to show what the high end looks like.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB has 8 GB at 272 GB/s. Street price: $289.

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Source: 671B MoE model requires hundreds of GB VRAM (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15