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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB run Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16?

Yes โ€” here's how fast and up to what context, with real measured numbers.

Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16 on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 no โ€” โ€” โ€”
Q8 yes 47k 30-35.8 t/s ~4.2-5 (slow)
Q4 yes 71k 53.6-63.9 t/s ~7.4-8.9 (slow)

Estimate (memory-bound). Beyond "max context" the KV cache spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and speed drops to the "beyond" figure.

FAQ

Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB run Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~53.6-63.9 tok/s and fits up to 71k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~7.4-8.9 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 71k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.