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NVIDIA RTX 3050 6 GB

6 GB GDDR6 advertised VRAM. Usable memory for calculations is 90% of advertised capacity. This page is the chip + VRAM entity — not a single cooler SKU.

Models that fit (calculated)

ModelParamsQ4Q8FP16Max context in VRAM
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct494MFitsFitsFits32K
TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.01.1BFitsFitsFits2K
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1.2BFitsFitsFits128K
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct1.5BFitsFitsFits32K
Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B Instruct1.5BFitsFitsFits32K
SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct1.7BFitsFitsFits8K
Gemma 2 2B Instruct2.6BFitsFitsOffload8K
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct3.1BFitsFitsOffload32K
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2BFitsFitsOffload16K
Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct3.8BFitsOffloadOffload4K
Phi-3 Mini 128K Instruct3.8BFitsOffloadOffload4K
Phi-3 Mini 4K Instruct3.8BFitsOffloadOffload4K
Phi-4 Mini Instruct3.8BFitsOffloadOffload16K
Code Llama 7B Instruct6.7BOffloadOffloadOffload2K
Vicuna 7B v1.56.7BOffloadOffloadOffload2K
DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat6.9BOffloadOffloadOffload2K
StarCoder2 7B7.2BOffloadOffloadNo16K
Falcon 7B Instruct7.2BOffloadOffloadNo—
OpenChat 3.5 7B7.2BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.37.3BOffloadOffloadNo4K
OLMo 2 7B Instruct7.3BOffloadOffloadNo—
Falcon 3 7B Instruct7.5BOffloadOffloadNo4K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B7.6BOffloadOffloadNo8K
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct7.6BOffloadOffloadNo8K
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct7.6BOffloadOffloadNo8K
Qwen2.5-Math 7B Instruct7.6BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Qwen2 7B Instruct7.6BOffloadOffloadNo8K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8.0BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B8.0BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8.0BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Llama 3 8B Instruct8.0BOffloadOffloadNo4K
Qwen3 8B8.2BOffloadOffloadNo2K
Yi 1.5 9B Chat8.8BOffloadOffloadNo—
Gemma 2 9B Instruct9.2BOffloadOffloadNo—
GLM-4-9B-04149.4BOffloadOffloadNo—
GLM-4 9B Chat9.4BOffloadOffloadNo—
Falcon 3 10B Instruct10BOffloadOffloadNo—
SOLAR 10.7B Instruct11BOffloadOffloadNo—
Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct12BOffloadOffloadNo—
Code Llama 13B Instruct13BOffloadNoNo—
Vicuna 13B v1.513BOffloadNoNo—
OLMo 2 13B Instruct14BOffloadNoNo—
Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct14BOffloadNoNo—
Phi-3 Medium 4K Instruct14BOffloadNoNo—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B15BOffloadNoNo—
Phi-415BOffloadNoNo—
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct15BOffloadNoNo—
Qwen3 14B15BOffloadNoNo—
StarCoder2 15B16BOffloadNoNo—
GPT-OSS 20B22BOffloadNoNo—
Mistral Small 24B Instruct24BNoNoNo—
Gemma 2 27B Instruct27BNoNoNo—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B33BNoNoNo—
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct33BNoNoNo—
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct33BNoNoNo—
QwQ 32B33BNoNoNo—
Qwen3 32B33BNoNoNo—
Code Llama 34B Instruct34BNoNoNo—
Yi 1.5 34B Chat34BNoNoNo—
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct47BNoNoNo—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B71BNoNoNo—
Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B71BNoNoNo—
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct71BNoNoNo—
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct71BNoNoNo—
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct73BNoNoNo—
GPT-OSS 120B117BNoNoNo—
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct141BNoNoNo—

Available graphics cards

These are Icecat product SKUs mapped to this chip. Different board-partner cards are not assumed to share a price. Amazon CTAs appear only for EXACT/HIGH matches that are not bundled accessories.

ASUS

ASUS Dual -RTX3050-O6G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$257.22

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MSI

MSI GEFORCE RTX 3050 LP 6G OC graphics card NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$219.99

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MSI

MSI Geforce RTX 3050 VENTUS 2X 6G OC NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$209.97

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GIGABYTE

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 OC Low Profile 6G NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$483.99

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ASUS

ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK OC Edition NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$321.82

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MSI

MSI VENTUS GeForce RTX 3050 2X E 6G OC NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

$317.06

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GIGABYTE

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 WINDFORCE OC V2 6G NVIDIA 6 GB GDDR6

6 GB · Amazon EXACT

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Sources

GPU identity and VRAM: Icecat structured specifications. Compatibility: RigForAI calculated estimate. Amazon: live affiliate match on individual SKUs, via /go/amazon/.