HARDWARE FIT CHECK • Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)4.24 GB / 12 GB VRAM

Can I Run Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) (4.1B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7) (12 GB).

✓ FITS IN VRAM4.24 GB (35%)~170 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

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Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)

✓ Fits Comfortably in VRAM

✓ FITS IN VRAM
Required VRAM
4.24 GB
35% of hardware capacity (12 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
~170 tok/s
Dense model @ 672 GB/s
Available Headroom
+7.76 GB
Safe for OS display & full context
Memory Allocation & Headroom
4.24 GB allocated of 12 GB capacity
35% utilized
Weights: 2.46 GB
KV: (32K): 0.94 GB
Overhead: 0.84 GB
Free Headroom: +7.76 GB
⚡ Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~170 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7) (672 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~2,465 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).
OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1 OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0 ollama run gemma4:4b

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU
32 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

Maximum tokens/sec on 27B–35B models & Blackwell FP4 quantization

1792 GB/s575W TDP
Consumer GPU
24 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

The 24GB CUDA enthusiast standard for 14B–32B Q4_K_M models

1008 GB/s450W TDP
Multi-GPU Rig
48 GB VRAM

2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dual Rig (48GB Total VRAM)

Best price-to-VRAM homelab rig for 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 3.8 27B Q8

936 GB/s700W TDP
Consumer GPU
12 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)

High-efficiency 12GB entry point with FP4 tensor acceleration

672 GB/s250W TDP

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx • KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw8.2 GB0.94 GB10.18 GB (85%)~54 t/sFITS
Q8_08.5 bpw4.35 GB0.94 GB6.19 GB (52%)~100 t/sFITS
Q6_K6.56 bpw3.36 GB0.94 GB5.17 GB (43%)~127 t/sFITS
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw2.91 GB0.94 GB4.7 GB (39%)~145 t/sFITS
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw2.46 GB0.94 GB4.24 GB (35%)~170 t/sFITS
FP44.25 bpw2.17 GB0.94 GB3.94 GB (33%)~190 t/sFITS
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw1.68 GB0.94 GB3.43 GB (29%)~239 t/sFITS

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FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)

How much VRAM does Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) need on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) requires 4.24 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B) achieve on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)?

Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)'s 672 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 170 tokens per second.

Can I expand context beyond 32K tokens?

Each additional 32K tokens of context requires additional KV cache memory. For longer context windows, consider 8-bit or 4-bit KV cache quantization.