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Can I run ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB)?
Yes. ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B runs on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) at Q4_K_M (~14.3 GB of ~15 GB usable).
Fits at Q4_K_M (~14.3 GB of ~15 GB usable) but with little headroom. Close other apps; a smaller context frees a few hundred MB.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) leaves ~0.7 GB of headroom.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~14.3 GB
- Usable on device
- ~15 GB
- Device memory
- 16 GB
- Best quant
- Q4_K_M
Which quant fits
Run it
Pick your tool. All 2 load the same Q4_K_M weights.
llama-cli -hf unsloth/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PT-GGUF:Q4_K_M lms get unsloth/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PT-GGUF How to run it
On Windows use LM Studio (Best GUI on Windows, auto-detects CUDA/Vulkan backends.).
- Parameters
- 21B (MoE, 3B active)
- Q4_K_M size
- 12.42 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 21.61 GB
- Context
- 131k
- Memory
- 16 GB vram
- Usable for weights
- ~15 GB
- Power draw
- ~165 W
- Best runtime
- Ollama (CUDA) / llama.cpp CUDA
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FAQ
Can Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) run ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B?
Yes. ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B runs on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) at Q4_K_M (~14.3 GB of ~15 GB usable).
How much memory does ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B need?
It is a tight fit on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB). At Q4_K_M the weights are ~12.42 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~14.3 GB at a 4k context. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model (21B total / 3B active), so all experts must stay in memory; memory tracks total params, not active params.
What is the best tool to run ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B on Windows?
LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.
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Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.