NVIDIA RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super for local LLMs
3 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3070 and 4 on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super
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 13% higher on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super (448 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3070, 504 on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 81.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 3
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 504 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 142 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 4070 Super |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, 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 | 13.9 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 82.3 t/sQ2_K |
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