HARDWARE FIT CHECK โ€ข Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct + NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)21.93 GB / 16 GB VRAM

Can I Run Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct (27.2B) on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB) (16 GB).

โŒ Out of Memory (OOM) โ€” Exceeds Hardware VRAM21.93 GB (137%)0 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

interactive
Agentic Coding, Terminal Workflows & Multi-File Refactoring
Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)

โœ• Out of Memory โ€” Exceeds VRAM Capacity

โœ• OOM
Required VRAM
21.93 GB
137% of hardware capacity (16 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
0 tok/s
Dense model @ 672 GB/s
Available Headroom
-5.93 GB
Needs +5.93 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
21.93 GB allocated of 16 GB capacity
137% utilized
Weights: 16.32 GB
KV: (32K): 4.29 GB
Overhead: 1.32 GB
Deficit: -5.93 GB
โšก Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~0 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB) (672 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~0 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 qwen3.8:27b

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx โ€ข KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw54.4 GB4.29 GB61.34 GB (383%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw28.83 GB4.29 GB34.88 GB (218%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw22.3 GB4.29 GB28.12 GB (176%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw19.31 GB4.29 GB25.03 GB (156%)0 t/sOOM
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw16.32 GB4.29 GB21.93 GB (137%)0 t/sOOM
FP44.25 bpw14.42 GB4.29 GB19.96 GB (125%)~6 t/sPARTIAL
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw11.15 GB4.29 GB16.58 GB (104%)~8 t/sPARTIAL

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU16 GB VRAM

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)

Mid-range 16GB gaming + local AI daily driver

672 GB/s285W TDP
Consumer GPU32 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

Maximum tokens/sec on 27Bโ€“35B models & Blackwell FP4 quantization

1792 GB/s575W TDP
Consumer GPU24 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

The 24GB CUDA enthusiast standard for 14Bโ€“32B Q4_K_M models

1008 GB/s450W TDP
Multi-GPU Rig48 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

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