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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 22.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super has more memory for models: 16 GB against 12 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 13; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.5× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs £874 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super £1,000 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super is £126 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super

£874

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

£1,000

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 SuperGeForce RTX 4080 Super
Memory12 GB GDDR6X16 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus192-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth504 GB/s736 GB/s
FP16 compute71 TFLOPS104 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power220 W320 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
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 4080 Super
gpt-oss 20Boffload49tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 12B33tok/sQ4_K_M37tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B31tok/sQ4_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B35tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B34tok/sQ5_K_M38tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1Boffload38tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B146tok/sQ8_0213tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B128tok/sQ8_0187tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B102tok/sQ5_K_M149tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B55tok/sQ8_081tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B39tok/smlx-4bit58tok/smlx-4bit
MiniCPM5 2B38tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260935tok/sQ8_051tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B30tok/sQ6_K42tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B30tok/sQ6_K42tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload60tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flashoffload40tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Boffload33tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4 9B 0414offload34tok/smlx-5bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload46tok/sQ4_K_M
granite vision 4.1 4boffload32tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3boffload31tok/sQ8_0
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
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
Llama 3.1 8Boffloadoffload
Kimi VL A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512offloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
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
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run
granite 4.2 30bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 13; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super holds gpt-oss 20B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.5× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs £874 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super £1,000 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super is £126 cheaper.

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