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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition run Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct?

42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 28.1 GB of 96.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 48.4 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
48.4 tok/s
Prompt processing
7,423 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
128K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition

On Windows

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-fp16
  • vLLM The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
  • SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-fp16
  • vLLM The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
  • SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition: F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-fp16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Meta, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

Free Hugging Face account needed: request access on the model page, and Meta approves it (usually within minutes to a few hours).

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.18.9 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.6.8 / 15
Match score65.7 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 11.0 GB 96.0 GB 339 tok/s Runs great 29Basic quality (D) · 29 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 12.0 GB 96.0 GB 267 tok/s Runs great 35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 13.3 GB 96.0 GB 206 tok/s Runs great 39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q5_K_M 14.3 GB 96.0 GB 170 tok/s Runs great 40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 15.5 GB 96.0 GB 143 tok/s Runs great 41Fair quality (C) · 41 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 18.1 GB 96.0 GB 105 tok/s Runs great 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
F16 28.1 GB 96.0 GB 48.4 tok/s Runs great 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct need on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

At F16 it needs about 28.1 GB. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB has 96.0 GB usable.

How fast is Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

About 48.4 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct should I use on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition 96GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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