NVIDIA RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12GB for local LLMs
217 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 and 6 on the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12GB
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 39% higher on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 (936 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3090, 672 on the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 142 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 217
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 124 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 RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 1.8 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 120.1 t/sQ4_K_S | 14.5 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 1.8 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 76.4 t/sQ5_K_S | 109.7 t/sQ2_K |
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