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8 GB VRAMhighReviewed November 2026

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Ampere Ti with GDDR6X at 608 GB/s. 8 GB VRAM is the ceiling — same as base 3070, no improvement on the variable that matters. The 'paid for the Ti suffix, got the same 8 GB' card; only worth it over the base 3070 if buying new.

Released 2021·Launch MSRP $599 (2021) · Now sells well below its launch price on the used market.·608 GB/s memory bandwidth
RUNLOCALAI SCORE
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358/ 1000
CC-tier
Estimated
Throughput
212/ 500
VRAM-fit
80/ 200
Ecosystem
200/ 200
Efficiency
20/ 100

Sub-scores sum to 512 / 1000. Headline = 512 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 358. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →

Extrapolated from 608 GB/s bandwidth — 73.0 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Comfortable for 7B chat.

7B chat✓
Comfortable
14B chat✗
Doesn't fit
32B chat✗
Doesn't fit
70B chat✗
Doesn't fit
Coding agent✗
Doesn't fit
Vision (≤8B VLM)~
Tight
Long context (32K)✗
Doesn't fit
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

Ampere Ti with GDDR6X at 608 GB/s. 8 GB VRAM is the ceiling — same as base 3070, no improvement on the variable that matters. The 'paid for the Ti suffix, got the same 8 GB' card; only worth it over the base 3070 if buying new.

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

VRAM8 GB
Power draw (peak)290 W
Released2021
MSRP$599
Backends
CUDA
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with usable context.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Kokoro 82M
0.082B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
BGE Large EN v1.5
0.335B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Qwen 3 0.6B
0.6B · qwen · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
XTTS v2
0.46B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
BGE Reranker v2 M3
0.57B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti run?

With 8GB VRAM, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti runs 7B models comfortably in Q4 quantization. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

How much does NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti cost?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti launched at an MSRP of $599 in 2021. Now sells well below its launch price on the used market. Retail prices change often, so check the current price with a retailer before you buy.

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