What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super run for coding?

Build: RTX 4070 Ti Super + Ryzen 7 7700X + 32GB DDR5

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)

Runs comfortably
60 models

Ranked by fit for coding use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.

#1CodeGemma 7B
7B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GB
ollama run codegemma:7b
108
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.20 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#2Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 5.2 GB
ollama run qwen3:8b
94
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.80 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#3Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 5.2 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:7b
61
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.10 GB
KV cache
0.47 GB
Activations
0.41 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#4Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 11.8 GBHeadroom: 4.2 GB
ollama run llama3.1:8b
54
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
1.07 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#5Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B
3B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.3 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GB
251
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.90 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.10 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#6StarCoder 2 3B
3B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.4 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GB
251
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
2.00 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.11 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#7Codestral Mamba 7B
7B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GB
108
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.20 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#8StarCoder 2 7B
7B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB
108
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#9OpenCoder 8B
8B
opencoder
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.7 GBHeadroom: 5.3 GB
94
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.70 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.24 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#10Yi Coder 9B
9B
yi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.0 GBHeadroom: 4.0 GB
84
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.40 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.28 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#11Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
3B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 6.9 GBHeadroom: 9.1 GB
ollama run llama3.2:3b
143
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
3.40 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.18 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#12Phi-3.5 Vision
4.2B
phi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 6.5 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GB
179
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
2.50 GB
KV cache
2.10 GB
Activations
0.13 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

Runs with tradeoffs
46 models

Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.

DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B)
16B
deepseek
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.8 GBHeadroom: 2.2 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.2 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b
47
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:14b
54
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.9 GBHeadroom: 3.1 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5:14b
54
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.90 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.45 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Codestral 22B
22B
mistral
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 26.5 GBHeadroom: 8.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~40% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run codestral:22b
5
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
13.00 GB
KV cache
11.00 GB
Activations
0.66 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
54
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
StarCoder 2 15B
15B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.1 GBHeadroom: 2.9 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.9 GB headroom left for context growth
50
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.00 GB
KV cache
1.88 GB
Activations
0.45 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 23.9 GBHeadroom: 11.3 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
4
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.00 GB
KV cache
2.15 GB
Activations
0.96 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.5 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen3:30b
4
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.00 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
0.90 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

What if you upgraded?

Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.

+32 GB system RAM

Check the current price

Adds 32 GB to your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.

Unlocks: 28 new comfortable, 57 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 1.7B
  • • Gemma 3 270M
  • • SmolLM2 135M Instruct

Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)

Check the current price

22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~? GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 47 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 14B
  • • Qwen 3 1.7B
  • • Gemma 3 270M

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

Launch MSRP $799 (2024). Check the current price.

Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.

Unlocks: 68 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 32B

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Won't run
top 5 popular models

Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)
1600B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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Llama 4 Scout
109B
llama
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B MoE)
284B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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