What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti run for creative?

Build: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)

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

Runs comfortably
76 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 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
#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
#4Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
8B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB
ollama run gemma4:e4b
121
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.28 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#5Gemma 2 2B Instruct
2.61B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.9 GBHeadroom: 11.1 GB
370
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.70 GB
KV cache
1.30 GB
Activations
0.09 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#6Gemma 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
#7CodeGemma 7B
8.54B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB
ollama run codegemma:7b
113
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.30 GB
KV cache
4.27 GB
Activations
0.27 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#8Turkish 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
#9Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
5.12B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 9.6 GBHeadroom: 6.4 GB
ollama run gemma4:e2b
107
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
2.56 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#10PaliGemma 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
#11Qwen 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
#12Qwen 3 1.7B
1.7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.8 GBHeadroom: 12.2 GB
567
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.10 GB
KV cache
0.85 GB
Activations
0.06 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

Runs with tradeoffs
47 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
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
ollama run qwen3:30b
292
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.00 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
0.90 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
402
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.48 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
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
345
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
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
40
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.00 GB
KV cache
12.00 GB
Activations
0.71 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Trendyol LLM Asure 12B
11.8B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.7 GBHeadroom: 3.3 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run alibayram/Trendyol-LLM-Asure-12B:latest
82
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.30 GB
KV cache
3.22 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

Check the current price

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

Unlocks: 15 new comfortable, 55 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Gemma 3 270M
  • • SigLIP SO400M (patch14-384)
  • • TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0

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 ~896 GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 33 new comfortable

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

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Launch MSRP $749 (2025). 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: 56 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Gemma 4 31B Dense

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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.

—
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.

—
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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Extrapolated
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Estimated
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