NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

For running models locally, priced in India. At 32k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 26.

Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPUGeForce RTX 5070GeForce RTX 3090
Memory12 GB GDDR724 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus192-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s936 GB/s
FP16 compute62 TFLOPS71 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power250 W350 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload26tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload27tok/sQ5_K_M
Gemma 4 31Boffload27tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload135tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload27tok/sQ5_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload78tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload135tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload65tok/sQ5_K_M
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload26tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload108tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload69tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 12B39tok/sQ6_K43tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B39tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload26tok/sQ5_K_M
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload26tok/sQ5_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload29tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload28tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M43tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M43tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload26tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B74tok/sQ8_0104tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M43tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B38tok/sQ4_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B45tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B94tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B38tok/sQ6_K53tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run