NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB vs NVIDIA RTX 3070 for local LLMs
1 report on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB and 6 on the NVIDIA RTX 3070
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 3.3x higher on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB (1,493 GB/s on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB, 448 on the NVIDIA RTX 3070). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,493 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 6.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
NVIDIA RTX 3070
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 81.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 6
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8GB | NVIDIA RTX 3070 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 2.1 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 18.3 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 2.1 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 11.6 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
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