Yes — with 42.6 GB to spare

Phi-4-mini 3.8B at Q4_K_M fits your RTX 6000 Ada entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 269 tokens per second. There is room for its full 128K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 2.2 GB MIT Released Feb 2025

MIT-licensed, dense, and unusually strong on instruction following for its size.

What hardware do I need for Phi-4-mini 3.8B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 2.2 GB
Weights 2.2 GB KV cache @ 8K 1.00 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 42.6 GB of 46.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
F16 7.2 GB 8.8 GB 128K 81 Reference Long context
Q8_0 3.8 GB 5.4 GB 128K 153 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 2.9 GB 4.5 GB 128K 198 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 2.5 GB 4.1 GB 128K 229 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 2.2 GB 3.8 GB 128K 269 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 1.7 GB 3.3 GB 128K 332 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 1.5 GB 3.1 GB 128K 388 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.

How to run it

terminal
$ ollama pull phi4-mini:3.8b
$ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \
    ollama run phi4-mini:3.8b

The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.

01Download is 2.2 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 128K context on this card.
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