NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 32k context the first runs 28 models fully in memory, the second 28.
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 5070 672 GB/s. At 32k context both run the same 28 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (estimated, median across models).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4070 | GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR7 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 504.2 GB/s | 672 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 29.146 TFLOPS | 62 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 200 W | 250 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 5 |
| 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 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | 29tok/sQ6_K | 39tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 29tok/sQ8_0 | 39tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 29tok/sQ5_K_M | 39tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3 8B | 29tok/sQ5_K_M | 39tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 56tok/sQ8_0 | 74tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 29tok/sQ5_K_M | 39tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 29tok/sQ4_K_M | 38tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 34tok/sQ8_0 | 45tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 70tok/sQ8_0 | 94tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 29tok/sQ6_K | 38tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 335tok/sQ8_0 | 446tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 254tok/sQ8_0 | 338tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 168tok/sQ5_K_M | 224tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 110tok/sQ8_0 | 147tok/sQ8_0 |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 77tok/sQ8_0 | 102tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 73tok/sQ5_K_M | 98tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 73tok/smlx-4bit | 97tok/smlx-4bit |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 64tok/sQ8_0 | 85tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 64tok/sQ8_0 | 85tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 54tok/sQ8_0 | 73tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 50tok/sQ8_0 | 66tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 48tok/sQ8_0 | 63tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | 44tok/sQ8_0 | 58tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 42tok/sQ4_K_M | 56tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 33tok/smlx-5bit | 43tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 31tok/sQ8_0 | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | 29tok/sQ5_K_M | 39tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | 29tok/sQ6_K | 38tok/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 |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| granite 4.2 30b | 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 |
| 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 |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
- Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 for speed.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
- At 32k context both run the same 28 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (estimated, median across models).
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