HARDWARE FIT CHECK • Microsoft Phi-4 14B + NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)13.24 GB / 16 GB VRAM

Can I Run Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Microsoft Phi-4 14B (14.7B) on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB) (16 GB).

✓ FITS IN VRAM13.24 GB (83%)~47 t/s

Target Hardware & Model

interactive
High-accuracy mathematical and scientific reasoning on 16GB GPUs
Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)

✓ Fits Comfortably in VRAM

✓ FITS IN VRAM
Required VRAM
13.24 GB
83% of hardware capacity (16 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
~47 tok/s
Dense model @ 672 GB/s
Available Headroom
+2.76 GB
Safe for OS display & full context
Memory Allocation & Headroom
13.24 GB allocated of 16 GB capacity
83% utilized
Weights: 8.82 GB
KV: (32K): 3.36 GB
Overhead: 1.06 GB
Free Headroom: +2.76 GB
Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~47 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB) (672 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~682 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).

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 Llama 3.3 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Q8_0

1648 GB/s700W TDP
Consumer GPU
16 GB VRAM

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)

Mid-range 16GB gaming + local AI daily driver

672 GB/s285W TDP

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx • KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw29.4 GB3.36 GB34.54 GB (216%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw15.58 GB3.36 GB20.24 GB (126%)~6 t/sPARTIAL
Q6_K6.56 bpw12.05 GB3.36 GB16.58 GB (104%)~8 t/sPARTIAL
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw10.44 GB3.36 GB14.92 GB (93%)~40 t/sFITS
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw8.82 GB3.36 GB13.24 GB (83%)~47 t/sFITS
FP44.25 bpw7.79 GB3.36 GB12.17 GB (76%)~52 t/sFITS
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw6.03 GB3.36 GB10.35 GB (65%)~66 t/sFITS

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FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)

How much VRAM does Microsoft Phi-4 14B need on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Microsoft Phi-4 14B requires 13.24 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will Microsoft Phi-4 14B achieve on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)?

Based on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)'s 672 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 47 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.