Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for RTX 4070 Ti

Compare RTX 4070 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 4070 Ti
VRAM
12GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for RTX 4070 Ti.

Fastest

qwen2.5-coder:0.5b

494.03M

521.2 tok/s

Highest token generation speed at 521.2 tok/s.

Best quality

qwen3.8:latest

27.3B

6.4 tok/sQuality 84.6

Highest completed quality score at 84.6.

Largest context

gemma4:12b

11.9B

108.4 tok/sContext 65,536 tokens

Largest context that fits in 12GB VRAM, at 65,536 tokens.

Models on the RTX 4070 Ti

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 read10305070905102050100200tok/s (log scale) →quality →outliers sit at the edges

Medians over 8 fully rated runs of 8 models. Each quantization is its own model.

Frequently asked questions

Which models actually run best on the RTX 4070 Ti, by task, from community benchmark data.

What is the best local model for coding on the RTX 4070 Ti?
On the RTX 4070 Ti, qwen3.8:latest ranks first for coding in our benchmarks (79.4/100 at ~6.4 tok/s).
What is the best local model for agentic workflows on the RTX 4070 Ti?
On the RTX 4070 Ti, qwen3.8:latest ranks first for agentic workflows in our benchmarks (86.4/100 at ~6.4 tok/s). gemma4:e4b is faster (~93.9 tok/s) and still scores well (81.5/100) — a good pick if you'd rather trade a little quality for speed.

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.