NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 8k context the first runs 16 models fully in memory, the second 16.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super has 672 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 736 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 16 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs $1,013 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super $1,199 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is $186 cheaper.

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

Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperGeForce RTX 4080 Super
Memory16 GB GDDR6X16 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s736 GB/s
FP16 compute88 TFLOPS104 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power285 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 Ti SuperNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
Devstral Small 2 24B27tok/sQ4_K_M29tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20B95tok/sMXFP4104tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B32tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B42tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B27tok/sQ4_K_M29tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B31tok/sQ6_K34tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B27tok/sQ8_029tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B42tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B42tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B30tok/sQ6_K33tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B87tok/sQ8_095tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B41tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B39tok/sQ8_043tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B49tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B170tok/sQ8_0187tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B54tok/sQ6_K60tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
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
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 4070 Ti Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
At 8k context both run the same 16 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs $1,013 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super $1,199 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is $186 cheaper.

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