Whisper Large V3 Turbo on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs Whisper Large V3 Turbo excellently at FP16. This is a strong pairing.

Model Size

810M

Device VRAM

16 GB

Bandwidth

288 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Whisper Large V3 Turbo performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

Quantization	Speed	TTFT	Fits in VRAM	Rating	Confidence
FP16	—	180ms	✓ Yes	Excellent	estimated

Notes

FP16

Real-time transcription. 0.81B params, 1.6GB VRAM. Fits with 14GB headroom.

About Whisper Large V3 Turbo

Whisper Large V3 Turbo (810M) is a transcription model. Distilled version of Whisper Large V3. 8x faster than the full model with minimal quality loss. The go-to for real-time transcription on local hardware. Runs comfortably on any GPU with 2GB+ VRAM.

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