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Gemma 2 27B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB cannot run Gemma 2 27B Instruct at any quantization level. The 8 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

27.23B

Device VRAM

8 GB

Bandwidth

272 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Gemma 2 27B Instruct performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

27B model. Minimum Q3_K_M needs 13.3GB.

About Gemma 2 27B Instruct

Gemma 2 27B Instruct (27.23B) is a chat, coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Google's 27B model with excellent knowledge distillation. Strong reasoning and coding capabilities at a size that fits on a single 24GB GPU at Q4. Limited to 8K context.

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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: Q3_K_M 13.3GB exceeds 8GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01