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NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB

NVIDIA · 6GB · 2 reports

On the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB, LFM3 1.7B at 8-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 91.3 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 30 Oct 2026).

As of 30 Oct 2026, the models most run on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB, with generation and prompt-processing medians from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding):

  • LFM3 1.7B
    91.3gen t/s at 8-bit · one run
    PP 5257.7 t/s · 1 run

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Reported performance on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB

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Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware
generation:
91.3 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
5257.7 tokens/s
quant:
Q8 (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is input throughput, not time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

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User benchmarks LFM3-1.7B Q8 in Magnitude against llama.cpp on an RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB, getting 91.26 t/s generation and 5257.71 t/s prompt processing with Magnitude versus 112.29 t/s and 5710.16 t/s with llama.cpp. Setup is Magnitude's own Rust/TypeScript engine with the Q8 GGUF, benchmarked with llama-benchy at pp2048/tg512; llama.cpp was run via llama-server with only -m set. On a Raspberry Pi 5 CPU-only run at pp128/tg128, Magnitude reached 3.59 t/s generation and 5.07 t/s prompt against llama.cpp's 5.25 and 31.42 t/s. The user could not confirm the claimed 2x speedup, notes Magnitude cannot do partial CPU offload, and says it overestimated VRAM use at 5.3GB when about 4.2GB was reserved.

Oct 29, 2026

Bonsai 27B

NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB · mentria.ai · 3,072 ctx

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
25-30 tokens/s
quant:
1-bit

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports 25-30 t/s decode in a chat UI and 32 t/s raw in a WebGPU browser inference engine, with prompt processing of 1489 tokens in about 25 seconds. The model is natively 1-bit, 27B parameters in 3.8 GB, running at 3072 tokens of context on a 6 GB card. The user also mentions smaller tiers (Qwen3.5 0.8B, 2B, 4B) and a vision tower.

Sep 9, 2026

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Reported configurations

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Model / hardwareQuant / engineReported contextGeneration
LFM3 1.7B
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB
Q8
Magnitude
Not reported91.3 tokens/s

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On the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop 6GB, LFM3 1.7B at 8-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 91.3 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 30 Oct 2026).