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NVIDIA

RTX 4070 12GB

RTX 40ConsumerAda LovelacePCIe 4CUDA
12GB
VRAM
504GB/s
Bandwidth
29TFLOPS
FP16 Compute
466TOPS
INT8 Inference
$599 MSRP
VRAM12 GBBandwidth504 GB/sCompute29 TFInference466 TOPSValue4.84 TF/$k
RTX 4070 12GBCategory AvgMacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GB

Specifications

Compute
FP1629 TFLOPS
INT8466 TOPS
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
Memory
VRAM12 GB
Bandwidth504 GB/s
General
FamilyRTX 40
SegmentConsumer
InterconnectPCIe 4
Compute PlatformCUDA
MSRP$599

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is NVIDIA's fourth-generation RTX architecture, manufactured on TSMC's custom 4N process. It introduces 4th-generation Tensor Cores with FP8 support, 3rd-generation ray tracing cores, and the Shader Execution Reordering (SER) engine for improved workload scheduling.

AI Relevance

FP8 Tensor Core operations provide a significant uplift for quantized LLM inference compared to Ampere's FP16-only Tensor Cores. DLSS 3 Frame Generation demonstrates the architecture's AI processing capabilities.

Process: TSMC 4NPlatform: CUDATensor Cores: Gen 4Precisions: FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT8, INT4

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Decode 77.5 tok/s · 41K ctx · llama.cpp
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Chat

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Coding

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This model is still usable for coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama.

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RAG

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Reasoning

B

Qwen 3 8B

This model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 77.5 tok/s · 23K ctx · llama.cpp
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Full Model Compatibility

UnslothQwen3.5 9B
B56
9B9.0 GB69 tok/s21K ctx
dense
BartowskiBMeta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
B56
8B8.2 GB78 tok/s23K ctx
dense
HauhauCSHQwen3.5 9B Uncensored HauhauCS Aggressive
B56
9B9.0 GB69 tok/s21K ctx
dense
XtunerXllava llama 3 8b v1 1
B56
8B8.2 GB78 tok/s23K ctx
dense
UnslothDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
B56
8B8.2 GB78 tok/s23K ctx
dense
MaziyarPanahiMMeta Llama 3 8B Instruct
B56
8B8.2 GB78 tok/s23K ctx
dense
Lmstudio-communityLQwen3.5 9B
B56
9B9.0 GB69 tok/s21K ctx
dense
TheBlokeTLlama 2 7B Chat
B55
7B7.5 GB89 tok/s26K ctx
dense
TheBlokeTMistral 7B Instruct v0.2
B55
7B7.5 GB89 tok/s26K ctx
dense
MaziyarPanahiMMistral 7B Instruct v0.3
B55
7B7.5 GB89 tok/s26K ctx
dense
UnslothQwen3.5 4B
C52
4B5.3 GB155 tok/s36K ctx
dense
Lmstudio-communityLgemma 3 4b it
C52
4B5.3 GB155 tok/s36K ctx
dense
BartowskiBLlama 3.2 3B Instruct
C51
3B5.1 GB179 tok/s38K ctx
dense
QwenQwen2.5 3B Instruct
C51
3B4.7 GB207 tok/s41K ctx
dense
BartowskiBgemma 2 2b it
C50
2B4.5 GB242 tok/s42K ctx
dense
Googlegemma 2b
C50
2B4.1 GB310 tok/s47K ctx
dense
TheDrummerTGemmasutra Mini 2B v1
C49
2B4.1 GB310 tok/s47K ctx
dense
QwenQwen2.5 1.5B Instruct
C49
1.5B3.8 GB378 tok/s50K ctx
dense
Hugging-quantsHLlama 3.2 1B Instruct Q8 0
C49
1B3.7 GB397 tok/s52K ctx
dense
TheBlokeTTinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0
C49
1.1B3.6 GB378 tok/s54K ctx
dense
Ggml-orgGSmolVLM 500M Instruct
C48
0.5B3.3 GB397 tok/s58K ctx
dense
Ggml-orgGembeddinggemma 300M
C48
0.3B3.1 GB397 tok/s61K ctx
dense
DeepSeekDeepSeek R1 671B
F0
671B417.2 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
moe
MistralDevstral 2 123B Instruct
F0
123B96.3 GB5 tok/s4K ctx
dense
Z.aiGLM-5
F0
744B462.2 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
UnslothQwen3.5 27B
F0
27B22.8 GB23 tok/s8K ctx
dense
UnslothQwen3.5 35B A3B
F0
35B28.9 GB18 tok/s7K ctx
dense
Moonshot AIKimi K2.5
F0
1000B617.1 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
MistralMistral Large 3
F0
675B420.3 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
+1moe
MistralMistral Small 4 119B
F0
119B75.7 GB15 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct
F0
30.5B21.5 GB53 tok/s9K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct
F0
480B300.4 GB4 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-Coder-Next
F0
80B51.7 GB24 tok/s4K ctx
moe
UnslothQwen3.5 122B A10B
F0
122B80.9 GB6 tok/s4K ctx
dense
DeepSeekDeepSeek V3 671B
F0
671B417.2 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
moe
MistralMixtral 8x22B
F0
141B94.2 GB8 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 2.5 72B
F0
72B57.3 GB9 tok/s4K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3 235B A22B
F0
235B148.9 GB7 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct
F0
30B21.2 GB54 tok/s9K ctx
moe
UnslothQwen3.5 397B A17B
F0
397B306.3 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
dense
MistralDevstral Small 2 24B Instruct
F0
24B20.5 GB26 tok/s9K ctx
dense
MetaLlama 3.3 70B
F0
70B55.7 GB9 tok/s4K ctx
dense
MetaLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128E
F0
400B248.8 GB5 tok/s4K ctx
moe
CohereCommand A 111B
F0
111B87.2 GB6 tok/s4K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 2.5 Coder 32B
F0
32B26.6 GB19 tok/s7K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 2.5 VL 72B
F0
72B57.3 GB9 tok/s4K ctx
dense
Unslothgemma 3 27b it
F0
27B22.8 GB23 tok/s8K ctx
dense
Lmstudio-communityLQwen3.5 35B A3B
F0
35B28.9 GB18 tok/s7K ctx
dense
MistralCodestral 2 25.08
F0
22B19.0 GB28 tok/s10K ctx
dense
MistralDevstral Small 1.1
F0
24B20.5 GB26 tok/s9K ctx
dense

Just out of reach

Models you could run with an upgrade

High-quality models that need a bit more memory

DeepSeekDeepSeek R1 671B
671BTier 5Needs ~423.0 GB
MistralDevstral 2 123B Instruct
123BTier 5Needs ~115.6 GB
Runs on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB
Z.aiGLM-5
744BTier 5Needs ~468.4 GB
UnslothQwen3.5 27B
27BTier 5Needs ~27.0 GB
Runs on RTX 5090 32GB (~$1,999)
UnslothQwen3.5 35B A3B
35BTier 5Needs ~34.4 GB
Runs on Mac mini M4 64GB (~$1,099)

Upgrade paths

Upgrade from RTX 4070 12GB

See what you unlock with more powerful hardware

Upgrade options

Upgrade options

AppleMacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GBNext step up
18 GB Unified (+6)
B
Unlocks StableLM 2 12B

~$1,999 MSRP

AMDRX 7600 XT 16GBBest value
16 GB VRAM (+4)
A
Unlocks StarCoder 15B, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14B+23 more

~$329 MSRP

NVIDIARTX A4000 16GBNVIDIA upgrade
16 GB VRAM (+4)
A
Unlocks StarCoder 15B, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14B+23 more

~$1,000 MSRP

AMDAMD Instinct MI350X 288GBBiggest leap
288 GB VRAM (+276)8000 GB/s (+7496)
A
Unlocks Devstral 2 123B Instruct, Qwen3.5 27B, Qwen3.5 35B A3B+107 more · +1007% faster avg

~$8,000 MSRP

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