How fast will Gemma 4 31B feel on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB?

Gemma 4 31B on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB

Gemma 4 31B is a 31.27B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 19.1 GB of memory. The NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB has 11 GB usable, so it only fits with part of the model offloaded to system RAM, which slows it down. Expect about 5.0 tokens/sec (1.9–8.1), with the first token after 1.5 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M18.3 GBPartial offload5.0 tok/s1.5 sProjected
Q8_032.6 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
FP1661.4 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Gemma 4 31B on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB

All models on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB · Gemma 4 31B on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.