What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super run locally?

84 models fit comfortably on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super with 32 GB system RAM. 62 more run with tradeoffs. Top pick: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B.

What's the recommended runner for this hardware?

llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA). This is the runner that gives best tokens-per-second on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super based on windows support and the GPU backend.

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

Build: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM

Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)

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Runs comfortably
84 models

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

#1Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B

hermes

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GB

ollama run hermes3:8b

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

4.90 GB

KV cache

4.00 GB

Activations

0.25 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#2Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B

dolphin

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.2 GBHeadroom: 10.8 GB

251

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

1.80 GB

KV cache

1.50 GB

Activations

0.10 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#3Hermes 3 Llama 3.2 3B

hermes

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.2 GBHeadroom: 10.8 GB

251

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

1.80 GB

KV cache

1.50 GB

Activations

0.10 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#4Gemma 2 2B Instruct

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.0 GBHeadroom: 12.0 GB

377

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

1.10 GB

KV cache

1.00 GB

Activations

0.06 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#5Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 5.1 GBHeadroom: 10.9 GB

ollama run gemma4:e2b

214

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

2.20 GB

KV cache

1.00 GB

Activations

0.12 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#6CodeGemma 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

Model details →

#7Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GB

ollama run gemma4:e4b

107

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

4.40 GB

KV cache

2.00 GB

Activations

0.23 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#8Gemma 3 4B

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GB

ollama run gemma3:4b

107

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

4.40 GB

KV cache

2.00 GB

Activations

0.23 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#9Qwen 3 1.7B

1.7B

qwen

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.6 GBHeadroom: 12.4 GB

443

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

0.90 GB

KV cache

0.85 GB

Activations

0.05 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#10Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

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

Model details →

#11Kumru 2B

2.4B

mistral

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.6 GBHeadroom: 11.4 GB

ollama run alibayram/kumru:latest

314

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

1.50 GB

KV cache

1.20 GB

Activations

0.08 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

#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

Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
62 models

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

Gemma 2 9B Instruct

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB

• Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth

ollama run gemma2:9b

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

5.80 GB

KV cache

4.50 GB

Activations

0.30 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat

15.7B

deepseek

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.8 GBHeadroom: 3.2 GB

• Tight VRAM fit — only 3.2 GB headroom left for context growth

314

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

8.60 GB

KV cache

1.96 GB

Activations

0.43 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

DeepSeek V3 Lite (16B MoE)

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

314

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

9.50 GB

KV cache

2.00 GB

Activations

0.48 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

DeepSeek MoE 16B Base

16B

deepseek

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 15.8 GBHeadroom: 0.2 GB

• Tight VRAM fit — only 0.2 GB headroom left for context growth

314

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

9.50 GB

KV cache

4.00 GB

Activations

0.48 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

Granite 3 MoE (3B active)

16B

granite

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

251

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

9.50 GB

KV cache

2.00 GB

Activations

0.48 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

YTU Turkish Gemma 9B v0.1

9.2B

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.5 GBHeadroom: 3.5 GB

• Tight VRAM fit — only 3.5 GB headroom left for context growth

ollama run alibayram/turkish-gemma-9b-v0.1:latest

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

5.80 GB

KV cache

4.60 GB

Activations

0.30 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B

24B

dolphin

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 28.5 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GB

• Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU

ollama run dolphin-mistral:24b

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

14.00 GB

KV cache

12.00 GB

Activations

0.71 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

Gemma 3 12B

12B

gemma

Commercial OK

Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.5 GBHeadroom: 0.5 GB

• Tight VRAM fit — only 0.5 GB headroom left for context growth

ollama run gemma3:12b

tok/s

Estimated

Weights

7.30 GB

KV cache

6.00 GB

Activations

0.37 GB

Runtime

1.80 GB

Model details →

What if you upgraded?

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

+32 GB system RAM

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

Unlocks: 13 new comfortable, 78 new tradeoff

• Qwen 3 0.6B
• Gemma 3 270M
• SmolLM2 135M Instruct
• TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0

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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: 32 new comfortable

• Qwen 3 0.6B
• Qwen 3 14B
• Gemma 3 270M
• Phi-4 14B

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: 63 new comfortable

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

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DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)

1600B

deepseek

Commercial OK