Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation

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Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation

Chips
6 GPU options, from NVIDIA T400 to NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
VRAM
4, 8, 12, 16 or 20 GB
Released
2024

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Configurations

Pick one to see which models it runs. More memory lets larger models fit; bandwidth sets how fast they answer.

Configuration Memory Usable for AI Bandwidth LLMs that run well Launch price
NVIDIA T400 4.0 GB 4.0 GB 80 GB/s 215 of 622 —
NVIDIA RTX A400 4.0 GB 4.0 GB 96 GB/s 215 of 622 —
NVIDIA T1000 8GB 8.0 GB 8.0 GB 160 GB/s 338 of 622 —
NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB 12.0 GB 12.0 GB 288 GB/s 421 of 622 —
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 16.0 GB 16.0 GB 224 GB/s 455 of 622 —
NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 20.0 GB 20.0 GB 280 GB/s 461 of 622 —

Specifications 4.0 GB configuration

MakerDell
TypeWorkstation
ChipNVIDIA RTX A400
Video memory (VRAM)4.0 GB
Usable for AI models4.0 GB
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s
FP16 compute2.7 TFLOPS
NotesWorkstation with NVIDIA RTX professional graphics; each option below is a GPU you can configure. Listed on the NVIDIA Marketplace.
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Best LLMs for the Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation 4.0 GB

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4BNVIDIA Q4_K_M 3.7 GB 29.6 tok/s Runs welltight fit
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM5 2BOpenBMB Q5_K_M 2.9 GB 38.6 tok/s Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 E2BGoogle Q4_K_M 4.0 GB 51.2 tok/s Runs welltight fit
62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Spark-X2.6 4BSparkLLM Q4_K_M 3.6 GB 28.7 tok/s Runs welltight fit
55Good quality (B) · 55 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3 1.7BLiquid AI Q6_K 2.3 GB 47.3 tok/s Runs great
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. TMax 4BAi2 Q4_K_M 3.6 GB 28.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 4BAlibaba Q4_K_M 3.9 GB 25.3 tok/s Runs welltight fit
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Agents-A1 4BInternScience Q4_K_M 3.8 GB 26.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit
49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3-VL 2BLiquid AI Q6_K 2.5 GB 42.6 tok/s Runs great
55Good quality (B) · 55 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Fara 1.5 4BMicrosoft Q4_K_M 3.8 GB 26.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit

Best Image models for the Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation 4.0 GB

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs FP8 3.5 GB 15 s Runs welltight fit · CPU offload
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Realistic Vision V5.1SG161222 FP16 2.8 GB 16 s Runs well
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. DreamShaper 8Lykon FP16 2.8 GB 16 s Runs well
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs Q4 GGUF 3.4 GB 1.9 min SlowCPU offload
30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LCM DreamShaper v7Tsinghua (LCM) FP16 2.8 GB 3.3 s Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. PixArt-Σ XL 1024PixArt FP16 3.3 GB 20 s Runs wellencoder in RAM

Best Video models for the Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation 4.0 GB

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5)Shanghai AI Lab FP16 2.6 GB 5.6 min Runs wellCPU offload

Best Decision models for the Dell Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Workstation 4.0 GB

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GLiNER2.5 DecideFastino F16 1.7 GB 85 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI Q8_0 1.7 GB 172 ms Runs well
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FRIDA-DecisionsSber AI Q8_0 1.7 GB 121 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI Q8_0 1.7 GB 172 ms Runs well
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Llama Prompt Guard 2 86MMeta F16 1.2 GB 96 ms Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GLiClass ModernBERT Large v3Knowledgator F16 1.5 GB 70 ms Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. OpenAI Privacy FilterOpenAI Q8_0 2.4 GB 11 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 0.6BAlibaba Q8_0 1.7 GB 172 ms Runs well

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Spec sources

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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