NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB for local LLMs
1 report on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti and 3 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 27B at 2-bit, the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti runs at 43.6 tokens per second (one run) and the NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB at 30.1 (one run). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 13% higher on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti (504 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti, 448 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB).
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 504 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 160 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 76 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 3
Measured on both
Median tokens per second from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same quant level. Engines and context lengths can still differ between the runs. How to read these
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti | NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B2-bit | 43.6one run | 30.1one run |
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. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti | NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, 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 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 13.9 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 82.3 t/sQ2_K | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti · NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB
Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti · NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB