Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for RTX 3070 Ti

Compare RTX 3070 Ti 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 3070 Ti
VRAM
8GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for RTX 3070 Ti.

Fastest

nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-GGUF

4B

139.0 tok/s

Highest token generation speed at 139.0 tok/s.

Best quality

Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-MTP-GGUF

35B

58.9 tok/sQuality 68.2

Highest completed quality score at 68.2.

Largest context

unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-GGUF

4B

119.9 tok/sContext 8,192 tokens

Largest context that fits in 8GB VRAM, at 8,192 tokens.

Frequently asked questions

Which models actually run best on the RTX 3070 Ti, by task, from community benchmark data.

What is the best local model for coding on the RTX 3070 Ti?
On the RTX 3070 Ti, unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-GGUF ranks first for coding in our benchmarks (67.7/100 at ~57.7 tok/s).
What is the best local model for agentic workflows on the RTX 3070 Ti?
On the RTX 3070 Ti, unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-GGUF ranks first for agentic workflows in our benchmarks (71.8/100 at ~119.9 tok/s).

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.