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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 4.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has more memory for models: 16 GB against 12 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 5 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 4; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds LFM2.5 8B-A1B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.9× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs $1,120 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 $1,181 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $61 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

$1,120

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

$1,181

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPUGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBGeForce RTX 5070
Memory16 GB GDDR712 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit192-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s672 GB/s
FP16 compute47 TFLOPS62 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power180 W250 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Gemma 4 12B23tok/sQ6_K43tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 9B20tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B32tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B23tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM2.5 8B-A1B23tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 20Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.1 8Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 5 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 4; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds LFM2.5 8B-A1B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.9× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs $1,120 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 $1,181 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $61 cheaper.

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