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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 64k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 10.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 896 GB/s. At 64k context both run the same 10 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 3.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs £977 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti £1,013 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is £36 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

£977

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

£1,013

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBGeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s896 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS88 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power165 W300 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
gpt-oss 20B27tok/sMXFP483tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_040tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B15tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M38tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M38tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B27tok/sQ8_083tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B12tok/sQ5_K_M37tok/sQ5_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B18tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B25tok/sQ8_078tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B12tok/sQ6_K37tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 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
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
At 64k context both run the same 10 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 3.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs £977 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti £1,013 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is £36 cheaper.

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