NVIDIA L4 vs NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti for local LLMs
3 reports on the NVIDIA L4 and 50 on the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti
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 3.0x higher on the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti (300 GB/s on the NVIDIA L4, 896 on the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA L4
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 121 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 3
NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 896 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 176 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 50
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 L4 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 10.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 58.4 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 16.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 38.5 t/sQ4_K_S | 193.2 t/sQ2_K |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 10.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 58.4 t/sQ2_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 24.5 t/sQ5_K_S | 130.3 t/sQ3_K_S |
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