Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for RTX 2070 Super

Compare RTX 2070 Super benchmark results and see which models actually earn the best completed quality scores.

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Hardware Overview

GPU-specific specifications for local LLM planning.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
VRAM
8GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for RTX 2070 Super.

Fastest

lfm2.5:8b-64k

8.5B

189.9 tok/s

Highest token generation speed at 189.9 tok/s.

Best quality

bonsai-2-27b

27B

38.3 tok/sQuality 85.0

Highest completed quality score at 85.0.

Largest context

hf.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

7.46B

79.6 tok/sContext 131,072 tokens

Largest context that fits in 8GB VRAM, at 131,072 tokens.

Models on the RTX 2070 Super

Every model the community ran on this hardware. Up is better answers, right is faster. Time to finish counts every token the model wrote, thinking included, so a model that talks a lot ends up further left.

Best trade-off: quality 60+, and nothing else here is both faster and betterOther models · dot size = number of runs
below 20 tok/s: slower than you read4050607080901002050100tok/s (log scale) →quality →outliers sit at the edges

Medians over 11 fully rated runs of 7 models. Each quantization is its own model.

Frequently asked questions

Which models actually run best on the RTX 2070 Super, by task, from community benchmark data.

What is the best local model for coding on the RTX 2070 Super?
On the RTX 2070 Super, ggml-org/gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUF:Q4_0 ranks first for coding in our benchmarks (60.2/100 at ~86.9 tok/s).
What is the best local model for agentic workflows on the RTX 2070 Super?
On the RTX 2070 Super, ggml-org/gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUF:Q4_0 ranks first for agentic workflows in our benchmarks (86.0/100 at ~86.9 tok/s).

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER.