NVIDIA RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX 4060 for local LLMs
3 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3070 and 4 on the NVIDIA RTX 4060
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 1.6x higher on the NVIDIA RTX 3070 (448 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3070, 272 on the NVIDIA RTX 4060). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA RTX 3070
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 81.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 3
NVIDIA RTX 4060
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 272 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 60.5 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 4
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 RTX 3070 | NVIDIA RTX 4060 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM | 14.5 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 9.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
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Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 3070 · NVIDIA RTX 4060