NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 8k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 44.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has more memory for models: 16 GB against 8 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 26; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti holds Devstral Small 2 24B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 2.0× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 costs £399 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti £1,100 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is £701 cheaper.

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

Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
GPUGeForce RTX 5060GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Memory8 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s896 GB/s
FP16 compute19.177 TFLOPS88 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power145 W300 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload35tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload127tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12Boffload42tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B40tok/sQ5_K_M56tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload35tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload35tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload41tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M56tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M56tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload41tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B58tok/sQ8_0116tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B44tok/sQ4_K_M55tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B40tok/sQ4_K_M52tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B48tok/sQ5_K_M66tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B144tok/sUD-Q5_K_M227tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B41tok/sQ5_K_M72tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B440tok/sQ8_0879tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B298tok/sQ8_0596tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B179tok/sQ5_K_M357tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B142tok/sQ8_0284tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B130tok/sQ8_0261tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B92tok/sQ8_0183tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B82tok/sQ8_0164tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B82tok/sQ8_0164tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B82tok/smlx-4bit163tok/smlx-4bit
granite vision 4.1 4b65tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251261tok/sQ8_0123tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b61tok/sQ8_0122tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260956tok/sQ8_0112tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251244tok/sQ4_K_M55tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash43tok/sQ4_K_M54tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B41tok/sQ6_K65tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B41tok/sQ5_K_M58tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload118tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 0414offload65tok/smlx-5bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload153tok/sQ4_K_M
Kimi VL A3Boffload120tok/smlx-6bit
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offload35tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload40tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload46tok/smlx-8bit
Devstral Small 2507offload35tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2506offload35tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2507offload35tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2509offload35tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
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
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
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 26; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti holds Devstral Small 2 24B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 2.0× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 costs £399 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti £1,100 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is £701 cheaper.

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