Use-case guide · Text classification

Should you pick RTX 3060 for text classification?

RTX 3060 has 12 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for text classification depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

RTX 3060 fits models up to ~8B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For text classification specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for RTX 3060 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On text classification workloads, RTX 3060 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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