HARDWARE BENCHMARK & VRAM ENVELOPE โ€ข CONSUMER GPU12 GB VRAM โ€ข 672 GB/s

What Models Can Run on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)?

12 GB VRAM672 GB/s Bandwidth250W TDPMSRP: $549Cloud: $0.28/hr on RunPod

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7) provides 12 GB of usable memory with 672 GB/s memory bandwidth at 250W TDP. High-efficiency 12GB entry point with FP4 tensor acceleration.

โœ• OOM21.93 GB (183%)0 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

interactive
Agentic Coding, Terminal Workflows & Multi-File Refactoring
GPU Topology / Quantity:Single GPU / Unified SoC
Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7)

โœ• Out of Memory โ€” Exceeds VRAM Capacity

โœ• OOM
Required VRAM
21.93 GB
183% of hardware capacity (12 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
0 tok/s
Dense model @ 672 GB/s
Available Headroom
-9.93 GB
Needs +9.93 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
21.93 GB allocated of 12 GB capacity
183% utilized
Weights: 16.32 GB
KV: (32K): 4.29 GB
Overhead: 1.32 GB
Deficit: -9.93 GB
โšก Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~0 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7) (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 (511%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw28.83 GB4.29 GB34.88 GB (291%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw22.3 GB4.29 GB28.12 GB (234%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw19.31 GB4.29 GB25.03 GB (209%)0 t/sOOM
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw16.32 GB4.29 GB21.93 GB (183%)0 t/sOOM
FP44.25 bpw14.42 GB4.29 GB19.96 GB (166%)0 t/sOOM
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw11.15 GB4.29 GB16.58 GB (138%)0 t/sOOM

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All Open-Weights Models Tested on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (12GB GDDR7) (Q4_K_M @ 32K Context)

Standard Q4_K_M precision with 32K context window and Q8_0 KV cache

18 Models Benchmarked
ModelArchitectureTotal VRAM NeededHeadroomEst. Decode SpeedCompatibilityDetailed Config
Qwen 3.8 27B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud
27.2B Dense21.93 GB(183%)-9.93 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B MoE
Alibaba Cloud
35B MoE24.1 GB(201%)-12.1 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B Engram MoE)
DeepSeek
552B MoE345.59 GB(2880%)-333.59 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Meta Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B MoE)
Meta AI
816B MoE512.86 GB(4274%)-500.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Google Gemma 4 26B MoE
Google
26.4B MoE20.23 GB(169%)-8.23 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Google Gemma 4 E4B (Edge 4B)
Google
4.1B Dense4.24 GB(35%)+7.76 GB~170 tok/sโœ“ FITSConfigure CLI โ†’
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek
32.8B Dense25.41 GB(212%)-13.41 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
14.8B Dense13.16 GB(110%)-1.16 GB~10 tok/sโšก PARTIALConfigure CLI โ†’
Meta Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE)
Meta AI
109B MoE71.66 GB(597%)-59.66 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Meta Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta AI
70.6B Dense49.96 GB(416%)-37.96 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta AI
8B Dense7.87 GB(66%)+4.13 GB~86 tok/sโœ“ FITSConfigure CLI โ†’
Microsoft Phi-4 Mini 3.8B
Microsoft
3.8B Dense3.92 GB(33%)+8.08 GB~184 tok/sโœ“ FITSConfigure CLI โ†’
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud
32.5B Dense25.22 GB(210%)-13.22 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
DeepSeek Coder V2 236B MoE
DeepSeek
236B MoE151.34 GB(1261%)-139.34 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta AI
405B Dense260.72 GB(2173%)-248.72 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Mistral Large 2 (123B Instruct)
Mistral AI
123B Dense83.04 GB(692%)-71.04 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Google Gemma 2 27B Instruct
Google
27.2B Dense23.81 GB(198%)-11.81 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMConfigure CLI โ†’
Google Gemma 2 9B Instruct
Google
9.2B Dense12.1 GB(101%)-0.1 GB~15 tok/sโšก PARTIALConfigure CLI โ†’