What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti run for creative?

Build: RTX 5070 Ti + Ryzen 7 9700X + 32GB DDR5

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

Runs comfortably
119 models

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

#1Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B
8B
hermes
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GB
ollama run hermes3:8b
121
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.90 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#2Dolphin 3.0 8B
8B
dolphin
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.1 GBHeadroom: 4.9 GB
ollama run dolphin3:8b
121
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#3Hermes 3 Llama 3.2 3B
3B
hermes
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.2 GBHeadroom: 10.8 GB
322
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.80 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.10 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#4Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B
3B
dolphin
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.2 GBHeadroom: 10.8 GB
322
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.80 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.10 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#5Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GB
ollama run gemma4:e4b
137
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#6Gemma 2 2B Instruct
2B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.0 GBHeadroom: 12.0 GB
482
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.10 GB
KV cache
1.00 GB
Activations
0.06 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#7Gemma 3 4B
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GB
ollama run gemma3:4b
137
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#8Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
2B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 5.1 GBHeadroom: 10.9 GB
ollama run gemma4:e2b
274
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
2.20 GB
KV cache
1.00 GB
Activations
0.12 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#9CodeGemma 7B
7B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GB
ollama run codegemma:7b
138
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.20 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#10Turkish Gemma 9B T1
9B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB
107
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#11PaliGemma 2 3B
3B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: BF16Context: 8,192VRAM: 9.6 GBHeadroom: 6.4 GB
97
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
6.00 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.31 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#12Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 5.2 GB
ollama run qwen3:8b
121
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.80 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

Runs with tradeoffs
94 models

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

Gemma 2 9B Instruct
9B
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
107
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.80 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.30 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
105
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.80 GB
KV cache
4.60 GB
Activations
0.30 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
402
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.60 GB
KV cache
1.96 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
322
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
402
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
402
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Gemma 4 12B
12B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.8 GBHeadroom: 0.2 GB
  • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.2 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12b
80
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.60 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.39 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
80
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.30 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.37 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

What if you upgraded?

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

+32 GB system RAM

~$80–150

Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.

Unlocks: 23 new comfortable, 112 new tradeoff

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

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

~$350

22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~896 GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 50 new comfortable

  • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • Gemma 4 12B
  • Qwen3.5 9B
  • Qwen 3 14B

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

~$849

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: 97 new comfortable

  • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • Qwen3.6 27B

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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.

Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)
397B
qwen
Commercial OK

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

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.

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.

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.

How to read these numbers

Measured here
Measured here - RunLocalAI ran this exact combo on owner hardware with public evidence.

Source-backed
Source-backed / community - a reproduced public source supports the speed, but it is not labeled as owner-measured.

Extrapolated
Extrapolated - predicted from a measured benchmark on similar-bandwidth hardware.

Estimated
Estimated - formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture; not a benchmark row.

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