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Best local LLM for 8GB VRAM: what fits (moved to our fuller guide)

This page has been folded into our updated 8GB guide, which covers Qwen3.5 9B, Gemma 4 and running Qwen3.8 Flash Next with system RAM.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 1, 2026 · 2 min

Night line-art illustration next to the headline: 16GB just got bigger From gpt-oss-20b to Qwen3.8 27B. A card reads gpt-oss-20b on 16GB: 32K context (our VRAM engine).

16GB GPU? Which local AI models fit now, from gpt-oss-20b to Qwen3.8 27B (Nov 2026)

16GB used to stop at 14B models. Now gpt-oss-20b fits with 32K of context, and Qwen3.8 27B fits at a 3-bit quant. Here is what runs on an RTX 5060 Ti, 4060 Ti or 5070 Ti, on our numbers, and when system RAM takes you further.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 1, 2026 · 8 min