what LLMs can the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run? The full list with real speeds (2026)

16GB of VRAM opens up a lot — from snappy 7B models to gpt-oss-20b. Here's exactly which local models the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB can run, and how fast,…

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Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

7B models: flying — Mistral 7B ~90 tok/s, DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B ~101 tok/s.

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

9B: comfortable — e.g. Qwen 9B (Q8) ~29 tok/s.

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

13-14B: very usable — Llama2 13B ~53 tok/s; 14B ~33 tok/s at 16K context.

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

~20B: at the ceiling — gpt-oss-20b runs with full 128K context.

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

30B+: no on a single card — needs 24GB (or two 5060 Tis).

What the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs

Best experience: 7-14B at Q4 — fast, and leaves context room.

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