NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 128k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 13.
In short
Both have 12 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 has 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 504 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 13 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super are about as fast as each other (estimated).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4070 | GeForce RTX 4070 Super |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 504.2 GB/s | 504 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 29.146 TFLOPS | 71 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 200 W | 220 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | 33tok/sQ4_K_M | 33tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 31tok/sQ4_K_M | 31tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 35tok/sQ8_0 | 35tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 34tok/sQ5_K_M | 34tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 146tok/sQ8_0 | 146tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 128tok/sQ8_0 | 128tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 102tok/sQ5_K_M | 102tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 55tok/sQ8_0 | 55tok/sQ8_0 |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 39tok/smlx-4bit | 39tok/smlx-4bit |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 38tok/sQ8_0 | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 35tok/sQ8_0 | 35tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 30tok/sQ6_K |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 30tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | offload |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | offload | offload |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | offload | offload |
| granite 4.2 3b | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | offload |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi Dev 72B | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won't run |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super?
- At 128k context both run the same 13 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super are about as fast as each other (estimated).
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