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NVIDIA· BLACKWELL 2.0

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Running LLMs on the GeForce RTX 5070 — the long read: which models fit at which quantisation, and the settings worth changing. · Or what else $549 buys

VRAM
12 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
672
GB/S
MODELS Q4
248/449
55%
7B Q4 SPEED
~77
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q455% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~179
TOK/S
7B
~77
TOK/S
14B
~38
TOK/S
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ MEASURED RIG REPORTS

We rent the machine and time every model on it: decode, VRAM peak, concurrency, watts and cost per million tokens. Yours may already be one of them — and two are free to read in full.

SEE THE REPORTS
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
12 GB
BANDWIDTH
672 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
30.9 TFLOPS
TDP
250W
MEMORY
GDDR7
ARCHITECTURE
Blackwell 2.0
CUDA CORES
6,144
TENSOR CORES
192
PCIE
Gen 5 x16
MSRP
$549
248
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
248
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
248
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
▸ WHERE TO BUY

MSRP $549

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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 248
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
5973
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
3982
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
3840
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
3840
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
2100
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
1991
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1763
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
1605
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1605
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1605
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
1536
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
1493
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1415
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1075
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1075
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
1034
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
946
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
946
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
896
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
896
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
896
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
867
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
726
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
717
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
664
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
618
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
572
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
498
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
489
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
448
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
448
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
448
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
448
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
414
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
414
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
414
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
398
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
379
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
379
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
358
TOK/S · 46% VRAM
▸ NEXT STEP

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See ranked models with benchmark scores, run commands, and precise speed estimates for your GeForce RTX 5070.

WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH

RTX 5070 holds 248 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is Ling-lite 16.8B at IQ4_XS.

TOKENS/SEC PER $100
12.6
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
2.19 GB
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B · IQ4_XS10.7 GB231 tok/sEST
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B · Q4_K_S10.6 GB221 tok/sEST
StarCoder2 15B15.96B · Q4_K_S10.7 GB33 tok/sEST
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB221 tok/sEST
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB36 tok/sEST
DeepCoder 14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB36 tok/sEST
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB36 tok/sEST
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB36 tok/sEST
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
M4 Pro (24GB)16 GB$1,3992.5 tok/s per $100
M4 (24GB)16 GB$6992.9 tok/s per $100
M2 (24GB)16 GB$9991.7 tok/s per $100
M3 (24GB)16 GB$9991.7 tok/s per $100

Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.

▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 12 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE RTX 5070 SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
12 GB GDDR7
BANDWIDTH
672 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
30.9 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
30.9 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
6,144
TENSOR CORES
192
TDP
250 W
ARCHITECTURE
Blackwell 2.0
MSRP
$549
▸ AI CAPABILITY
248/ 449 models @ Q4

With 12 GB VRAM and 672 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 14.8B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~77 tok/s.

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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE RTX 5070
248 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B9.5 GB3643.9
DeepCoder 14B14.8B9.5 GB3638.7
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B9.5 GB3641.3
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B9.5 GB3641.3
Qwen3 14B14.8B9.5 GB3645.7
phi-4 14B14.66B9.4 GB3733.7
Phi-4-reasoning 14B14.66B9.4 GB3733.7
Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14B14.66B9.4 GB3775.5
Phi-3-medium-14b14B9.0 GB3833.7
Qwen 1.5 14B14B9.0 GB3841.3
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning13.95B9.0 GB39
Baichuan2 13B13B8.4 GB4123.6
Llama 2 13B13B8.4 GB4117.2
CodeLlama 13B13B8.4 GB4119.7
Vicuna 13B13B8.4 GB4111.8
LLaMA 1 13B13B8.4 GB4132.9
OPT 13B13B8.4 GB4135.8
Orca 2 13B13B8.4 GB4125.4
WizardCoder Python 13B13B8.4 GB4160.1
WizardLM 13B13B8.4 GB4119.5