NVIDIA RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for local LLMs
9 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 and 56 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Gemma 4 8B at 4-bit, the NVIDIA RTX 4070 runs at 55.0 tokens per second (one run) and the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at 73.9 (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 (504 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 4070, 448 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB).
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 504 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 116 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 9
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 95 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 56
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 bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 8B4-bit | 55.0one runOllamacontext not stated | 73.9one runLM Studio128K context |
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 | NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 8B | 42.6 t/sQ6_K | 30.8 t/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 29.2 t/sQ2_K |
| 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 | 96.6 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 29.2 t/sQ2_K |
| GLM-5.3 320B · 18B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
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Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 4070 · NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB