NVIDIA GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER has 12GB of VRAM and 504.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its sweet spot tops out around Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 — the largest model that loads cleanly at a quality quant with llama.cpp at 8K context.

VRAM: 12 GB
Memory bandwidth: 504.2 GB/s
TDP: 220 W
MSRP: $599
Backends: CUDA · Vulkan

Specs as of 2026-07-08 · source

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What an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER can run

Every model we track, graded at its best clean-fit quant. Click any verdict for the full breakdown.

Model	Best-quant verdict · llama.cpp · 8K context
Qwen3-8B	Fits · B · Q6_Kinteractive
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	Tight · C · MXFP4_MOEinteractive · offloadbeta
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	Fits · B · Q8_0interactive
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	Fits · B · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1	Won't fitbeta
Qwen3.5-9B	Fits · B · Q6_Kinteractivebeta
gpt-oss-20b	Tight · C · MXFP4interactive · offloadbeta
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	Tight · C · MXFP4_MOEinteractive · offloadbeta
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Qwen3-32B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
Qwen3.6-27B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	Fits · B · Q8_0interactive
gpt-oss-120b	Tight · C · MXFP4interactive · offloadbeta
Qwen3-14B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractive
Qwen3-30B-A3B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractive · offloadbeta
Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
DeepSeek-V4-Flash	Won't fitbeta
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractive
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
gemma-3-4b-it	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
gemma-3-12b-it	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractivebeta
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct	Tight · C · Q4_K_Mpainful · offloadbeta
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Phi-4	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
gemma-3-27b-it	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	Tight · C · Q4_K_Mpainful · offloadbeta
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct	Tight · C · Q4_K_Mpainful · offloadbeta
gemma-2-2b-it	Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Minteractive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B	Fits · B · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B	Fits · B · Q8_0interactive
gemma-2-9b-it	Fits · B · Q6_Kinteractivebeta
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407	Fits · B · Q4_K_Minteractive
QwQ-32B	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta
gemma-2-27b-it	Tight · C · Q4_K_Musable · offloadbeta

Verdicts computed from published specs and measured GGUF sizes — how the math works.