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User seeks advice on RTX 3060 for Stable Diffusion and LLM use

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A user on Reddit is seeking advice on whether an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card with 12GB of VRAM is sufficient for their needs. They are looking to upgrade from an older card to generate high-quality local images of people and animals, including realistic faces and potentially videos, using Stable Diffusion models like SDXL. The user also plans to run large language models for AI chat purposes and believes the 3060 will be adequate for that task. AI

RANK_REASON This is a user query on a consumer hardware forum, not a news event.

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User seeks advice on RTX 3060 for Stable Diffusion and LLM use

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Guilty_Elk4385 ·

    Will a 3060 12GB do what I need it to do?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have an old 1070 that's pretty crap, it's time to upgrade. I don't have a thousand bucks to throw away, but at the same time I don't want to buy a 3060 and then realize I'm going to want an even better GPU in a few months or a year.</p> <p>I wa…

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