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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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

In short

Both have 12 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super has 504 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 672 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 4 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 Super (estimated, median across models).

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 SuperGeForce RTX 5070
Memory12 GB GDDR6X12 GB GDDR7
Memory bus192-bit192-bit
Memory bandwidth504 GB/s672 GB/s
FP16 compute71 TFLOPS62 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power220 W250 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Gemma 4 12B33tok/sQ4_K_M43tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 9B31tok/sQ4_K_M42tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B35tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B34tok/sQ5_K_M45tok/sQ5_K_M
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
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 20Boffloadoffload
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
LFM2.5 8B-A1Boffloadoffload
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 4070 Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 for speed.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070?
At 128k context both run the same 4 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 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 Super (estimated, median across models).

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