llamaperf

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

NVIDIA · 16GB · 11 reports

On the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, Qwen3.8 27B at 3-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 20.0 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 29 Oct 2026).

As of 29 Oct 2026, the models most run on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, with generation and prompt-processing medians from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding):

  • Qwen3.8 27B
    20.0gen t/s at 3-bit · one run
    PP 800.0 t/s · 1 run

Engines people use on it: llama.cpp 4 (reports) · KoboldCpp 1 (reports)

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Reported performance on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

These reports mix GPU counts and memory setups, so a model listed here may have needed extra cards or CPU offloading. The calculator estimates which models fit in 16 GB of VRAM.

NVIDIA hardware
generation:
122.5 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
76.7 tokens/s
quant:
UD-Q4_K_XL (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.

User compares a Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) against their current dual RTX 4060 Ti 16GB setup and asks what prefill and decode speeds Mac owners get. On the 2x 4060 Ti they report Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at UD-Q4_K_XL with 262k context reaching 76.7 t/s prefill and 122.5 t/s decode. A second row gives Qwen3.8-27B dense at UD-Q4_K_XL with 200k context at 55.5 t/s prefill and 34.3 t/s decode. No engine is named.

Oct 29, 2026
NVIDIA hardware
generation:
19.5 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
132.6 tokens/s
quant:
Q5_K_XL (GGUF)
kv:
q8_0

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.

User reports Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at 19.53 t/s generation and 132.58 t/s prompt processing on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB with an i7 7th-gen CPU and 48GB DDR4. Setup is llama.cpp (llama-server) with Q5_K_XL GGUF, q8_0 KV cache, 131072 context, flash attention on, and --cpu-moe keeping experts in system RAM; only 4.5GB of VRAM is occupied. User compares this to a dense ~26B model at Q4_K_M with -ngl 25, which crawls at around 2 t/s, and asks why the MoE run is nearly twice as fast despite streaming expert layers over PCIe.

Oct 17, 2026
Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware
generation:
11.0 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
744.0 tokens/s
quant:
IQ3_S (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.

User reports Poolside Laguna S 2.1 IQ3_S at 11 tok/s decode and 744 tok/s prefill at 128K context on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB with 128GB DDR4 and a Threadripper 1950x. Setup uses the user's own floatie engine, an attempt to replicate Strata's partial-offload approach, with OMP. User compares against Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q4_K_XL at 18.2 tok/s and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S at 35.8 tok/s on the same task; the Laguna run finished in 84 min with 4 bugs found in review versus 30 min/1 bug and 20 min/4 bugs for the Qwen runs. User says they will not pursue this further.

Oct 12, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · llamADALL · 8,192 ctx

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
44.3 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
870.0 tokens/s

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.

coding

User reports Qwen3.8 27B at 44.3 t/s generation and 870 t/s prompt processing on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, using a custom llama.cpp fork (llamADALL) built for 40-series cards. Setup uses MTP with 3 draft tokens, chat template and thinking on, power limited to 133 W, over a PCIe 1x to 16x mining riser. Numbers are the average of 2 runs on a chat growing from 8K to 124K tokens. The fork roughly doubles base llama.cpp speeds; at 124K context it reaches 33.0 t/s generation and 496 t/s prompt versus 16.6 and 193 for base llama.cpp. User notes removing the power limit improves results by 5-8%.

Oct 6, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
15.0 tokens/s
quant:
Q4_K_M (GGUF)

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 Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15 t/s on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB using TensorTune's smart tensor offloading. Setup is KoboldCpp with Q4_K_M quant, all layers on GPU with tensor offloading. The baseline with traditional layer offloading (30 layers) was 10 t/s, a 50% improvement.

Sep 28, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
18.7 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
210.0 tokens/s
quant:
Q5_K_M (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.

codingcreative-writing

User reports Qwen3.8 Flash at 18.7 t/s generation on a Ryzen 7700 with 64 GB DDR5 and an RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB. Setup is a custom llama.cpp fork (myllama.cpp) running the 35B MoE model with 6B active parameters, CUDA and Windows specific, with no MTP support. An initial IQ4_XS quant gave 100 t/s prefill and 20 t/s generation, degrading to 15 t/s at 100K context. A switch to Q5_K_M dropped to 15 t/s prefill and 10-13 t/s generation from MMAP page faulting. A four-layer system followed: an unbuffered raw file reader with a RAM buffer for 2 slabs reached 150 t/s prefill, a RAM expert cache with decay factor (55-56 GB, covering 85-95% of requests) gave 14-15 t/s generation, memcpy from cache to buffer during prefill reached 215 t/s prefill, a 2 GB VRAM cache for top experts gave 18.0 t/s generation, and direct IO for embeddings gave 18.7 t/s.

Sep 11, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
20.0 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
800.0 tokens/s
quant:
IQ3_K_XXS
kv:
Q8

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.

codingagentic

User reports Qwen 3.8 27B IQ3_K_XXS by Unsloth running fully on a 4060Ti 16GB at ~100k context, averaging 800 t/s prefill and 20 t/s decode. Setup uses a Q8 KV cache with mmproj and MTP dropped. Decode falls to 17 t/s after 64k context. The user runs agentic coding with parallel tool calls and successfully merged a feature branch, and plans to upgrade to an R9700.

Sep 7, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
7.4 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
15.2 tokens/s
quant:
UD-Q2_K_XL (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.

User reports a 98 GB model running on 16 GB VRAM with CPU offload, improving from 2 to 7 t/s with recent llama.cpp updates.

Sep 7, 2026
Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware

User reports Qwen 3.8 27B overthinking, run on a 4060 Ti with 16 GB VRAM. The model can be run with 16 GB VRAM plus system RAM. Gemma 4 26B A4B and GPT-OSS 20B are named as alternatives for daily tasks. The user cites SWE-Rebench insight that Qwen Next requires huge token counts, and hard limits reasoning to 8192 in llama.cpp and vLLM.

Sep 7, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · llama.cpp · 128,000 ctx

Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware
generation:
11.0 tokens/s
quant:
IQ3_S (GGUF)
kv:
Q8

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.

codingagentic

User reports Qwen3.8 27B IQ3_S at about 11 t/s for code generation and 6-7 t/s on reasoning. Setup is speculative decoding with a Q4_K_M draft model. User asks for optimization advice.

Sep 7, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · text-generation-webui

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
30-35 tokens/s
quant:
Q3_xxs (GGUF)

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.

coding

User reports 30-35 t/s from a local model, dropping to 21-22 t/s at long context. The user is impressed with its coding performance, one-shotting tasks that Qwen3.6 35B failed. The user notes occasional misunderstandings in conversation and on basic tasks, possibly due to a low quant.

Aug 28, 2026

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Reported configurations

Individual observations from this page, not expected speeds or a ranking. Select a model to open its report, with the source and offloading conditions. Reported context may be a limit rather than actual input length.

Model / hardwareQuant / engineReported contextGeneration
Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)
2× NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
UD-Q4_K_XL
Engine not reported
262,144122.5 tokens/s
Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Q5_K_XL
llama.cpp
131,07219.5 tokens/s
Poolside Laguna S 2.1 118B (8B active)
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
IQ3_S
floatie
128,00011.0 tokens/s
Qwen3.8 27B
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Not reported
llamADALL
8,19244.3 tokens/s
Qwen3 30B (3B active)
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Q4_K_M
KoboldCpp
Not reported15.0 tokens/s
Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Q5_K_M
llama.cpp
100,00018.7 tokens/s

Frequently asked

How fast is the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for local LLMs?

On the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, Qwen3.8 27B at 3-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 20.0 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 29 Oct 2026).