llamaperf

NVIDIA RTX 4070

NVIDIA · 12GB · 12 reports

On the NVIDIA RTX 4070, Gemma 4 8B at 4-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 55.0 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 30 Oct 2026).

As of 30 Oct 2026, the models most run on the NVIDIA RTX 4070, with generation and prompt-processing medians from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding):

Engines people use on it: llama.cpp 3 (reports) · Ollama 2 (reports) · Strata 1 (reports) · ik_llama.cpp 1 (reports)

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Reported performance on the NVIDIA RTX 4070

These reports mix GPU counts and memory setups, so a model listed here may have needed extra cards or CPU offloading. The calculator estimates which models fit in 12 GB of VRAM.

Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware
generation:
13.0 tokens/s
quant:
Q4_K_M (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

coding

User compares Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B at around 13 tokens/sec against Strata on an RTX 4070 12 GB plus RTX 3060 12 GB with 32GB DDR4, running the same instruction runsheet. Qwen3.8-27B runs Q4_K_M; Strata runs IQ3_XXS with experts streamed from an experts.bin file on an M.2 SSD, context varied from 96k to 160k, KV cache tried as Int8, q8v4 and q4_0, kv-resident 20480 to 32768. Strata reached around 17 tokens/sec, 31-36 t/s for plain text generation and 20-25 t/s for logic/coding, with 5700 to 6800 experts in VRAM and system RAM maxed. Lowering kv-resident raised experts in VRAM but ran 3-4 t/s slower. User asks where the bottleneck is and which low-RAM flags to use.

Oct 24, 2026

Unknown family

NVIDIA RTX 4070 · Ollama

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
29.6 tokens/s

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Mixtral 8x7B, Qwen-MoE and DeepSeek-MoE MoE models running through Ollama on an RTX 4070 12GB at 29.6 tok/s, up from 20.2 tok/s with a custom PyTorch orchestration layer (NPOL Engine) that prefetches experts from pinned host RAM. Setup offloads expert weights to system RAM over PCIe Gen4 x16, with a rank-32 lookahead probe staging predicted experts on a non-blocking CUDA stream and a thermal guard shedding tokens to resident experts. The user reports a 67.0% VRAM cache hit rate and 35.8% PCIe stall time saved, with 99.55% output cosine similarity preserved. Other cards: RTX 4080 Laptop 12GB 19.6 to 28.9 tok/s, RTX 3060 12GB 19.2 to 28.5 tok/s with temperature dropping from 82.5C to 58.0C, RTX 4090 24GB 27.6 to 37.2 tok/s.

Oct 19, 2026
NVIDIA hardware
generation:
73-75 tokens/s
quant:
UD-Q3_K_M (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 73-75 tok/s generation and 1,390 tok/s prompt processing on a laptop with an RTX 4070 8 GB, i7-14700HX and 32 GB RAM. Setup is PolyStrata with UD-Q3_K_M GGUF, a 30,000-token prompt, CPU offload of experts and speculative decoding. The same model on an RTX 5090 32 GB writes 332-334 tok/s and reads 5,520-5,580. Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Ornith 1.5 and GLM 5.3 Flash were also measured on both machines; GLM 5.3 Flash does not fit in 32 GB of RAM.

Oct 11, 2026
Tone: negativeNVIDIA hardware
generation:
28.7 tokens/s
quant:
Q3_K_P (GGUF)
kv:
q8_0

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive at 28.74 t/s generation on an RTX 4070 with a Ryzen 7 7700X and 32GB DDR5, roughly half the speed they get from llama.cpp. Setup is ik_llama.cpp with a Q3_K_P GGUF, q8_0 KV cache, 131072 context, and 12 threads; the same command under llama.cpp gave 63.82 t/s generation and 70.52 t/s prompt eval. The user is asking what could be done about the shortfall.

Oct 4, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
69.0 tokens/s
quant:
IQ2_XS (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 69 t/s at 98k tokens on an RTX 4070 12GB and Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB. Setup uses IQ2_XS quant with 32GB DDR4 RAM and a 3500MB/s SSD, with CPU offload. Speeds scale from 37 t/s fresh to 69 t/s at 98k tokens. User also gets 45-50 t/s on a 27B Q4_K_M model and asks whether IQ3_XXS would fit.

Oct 3, 2026
NVIDIA hardware
generation:
15.7 tokens/s
quant:
IQ3_XXS (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Qwen3.8 Flash-Next at 15.7 t/s on an RTX 4070 12GB and V100 16GB with 32GB of system RAM. Setup is llama.cpp with IQ3_XXS weights, 98k context, flash attention, jinja, and MTP with 2 draft tokens, using layer split rather than tensor parallelism. The user asks whether the model should require 45.8 GB in memory as shown for an AD-3.84bpw-IQ4_XS-M64 build, and notes their own RAM usage stayed around 6 GB.

Oct 3, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B

2× NVIDIA RTX 4070 · Unsloth Desktop · 120,000 ctx

NVIDIA hardware
generation:
20-40 tokens/s

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

codingagentic

User asks for advice on orchestrating a local Qwen 3.8 27B GGUF model with cloud subscriptions (Claude, Codex, Antigravity) to avoid burning paid tokens. Setup is Unsloth Desktop on a remote rig with dual GPUs (RTX 4070 + RTX 5060 Ti), tunneled through Cloudflare, with a 120k context window. User reports output of around 20–40 tokens/s.

Sep 26, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
20.6 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
300-350 tokens/s
quant:
4.27 bpw (GGUF)
mtp (multi-token prediction):
on

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is input throughput, not time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

codingsummarizationcreative-writing

User reports Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B MoE) at 20.65 t/s generation on an RTX 4070 12GB with 64GB DDR5-5600 and Gen4 NVMe on Linux. Setup is llama.cpp with AtomicChat's 4.27 bpw GGUF, n-gram SSD offloading, --fit-target 512, and an MTP variant (PR #28243 + compact shared-Q4_K_M head) with -ncmoe 45, yielding 77-96% acceptance. Prompt processing is 300-350 t/s. Baseline was 6 t/s; master branch reached 19.35 t/s. User notes MTP gives limited gains at low VRAM because layers must be freed for the MTP head.

Sep 15, 2026
NVIDIA hardware
generation:
7.2 tokens/s

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 7.19 t/s on an RTX 4070 Ti 12GB with 128GB DDR4 RAM. Setup is the Nebula C/CUDA engine with native MTP speculative decoding, GPU expert caching (27 of 512 experts per layer resident in VRAM), and CPU MoE execution on an Intel i9-9940X using 14 threads, with a 24,576-token context capacity. A limited-tolerance acceptance mode reaches 7.54 t/s. Time to first token is 25.11 seconds for a 512-token input and 113.94 seconds for 2,048 tokens. Prefill is noted as slow for longer prompts.

Sep 12, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B

NVIDIA RTX 4070 · llama.cpp · 32,768 ctx

NVIDIA hardware
generation:
11.7 tokens/s
quant:
IQ4_XS (GGUF)
kv:
Q8
mtp (multi-token prediction):
on

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports 12.55 t/s for a 256 token response and 11.65 t/s for a 512 token response on an RPC split across an RTX 4070 Ti and an M5 MacBook Air with 16 GB unified memory. MTP off gives 9.72 t/s. The use case is agentic coding.

Sep 7, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B Uncensored

NVIDIA RTX 4070 · llama.cpp · 100,100 ctx

Tone: mixedNVIDIA hardware
quant:
IQ4_XS (GGUF)
kv:
Q4
rpcreative-writingvisionlong-context

User reports running Qwen3.8-27B on 16 GB of VRAM with the IQ4_XS quant. Setup is MTP disabled, mmproj offloaded to CPU, and a Q4 KV cache, at roughly 100k context. User notes Windows VRAM overhead as a constraint.

Aug 28, 2026
Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
55.0 tokens/s
quant:
Q4_K_M (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is shown only when the source reports it; generation speed cannot tell us time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

text-generation

User reports about 55 t/s on an RTX 4070 12GB. The figure is estimated from compute-market tiers rather than a measured run.

May 1, 2026

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Reported configurations

Individual observations from this page, not expected speeds or a ranking. Select a model to open its report, with the source and offloading conditions. Reported context may be a limit rather than actual input length.

Model / hardwareQuant / engineReported contextGeneration
Qwen3.8 27B Swift-1.5
2× NVIDIA RTX 4070
Q4_K_M
Strata
Not reported13.0 tokens/s
Unknown family
NVIDIA RTX 4070
Not reported
Ollama
Not reported29.6 tokens/s
Qwen3.6 35B (3B active) Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive
NVIDIA RTX 4070
Q3_K_P
ik_llama.cpp
131,07228.7 tokens/s
Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next
2× NVIDIA RTX 4070
IQ2_XS
Engine not reported
98,00069.0 tokens/s
Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next
2× NVIDIA RTX 4070
IQ3_XXS
llama.cpp
98,00015.7 tokens/s
Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next
NVIDIA RTX 4070
4.27 bpw
llama.cpp
Not reported20.6 tokens/s

Frequently asked

How fast is the NVIDIA RTX 4070 for local LLMs?

On the NVIDIA RTX 4070, Gemma 4 8B at 4-bit, the model most run on it, generates a median of 55.0 tokens per second from one plain run (community reports, as of 30 Oct 2026).