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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

16 GB decides what fits. 672 GB/s decides how fast it runs once it does.

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Quick answer
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER fits 153 of 320 sized models entirely in its 16 GB; the largest widely used one is gpt-oss-20b (13.8 GB at Q4_K_M). Memory decides what fits; its 672 GB/s of bandwidth decides how fast it answers.

At 8,192 tokens of context with the whole model in device memory. Speeds are estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks run on this card.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · 16 GB · 672 GB/s · Q4_K_M where published · 8,192 tokensSpecificationreconstructed size. Memory bandwidth computed from published figures rather than read from one: 256-bit x 21 Gbps / 8 = 672 GB/s. Width and memory type from NVIDIA (Standard Memory Config: 16 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6 / 12 GB GDDR6X; Memory Interface Width: 256-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit (columns RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070)); data rate from the board partner specification for a shipping card (ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC Edition 16GB GDDR6X): Graphic Engine "NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER"; Video Memory "16GB GDDR6X"; Memory Speed "21 Gbps"; Memory Interface "256-bit".Decode speedestimate

153 of 320 fit entirely

153 of the 320 models the engine can size fit entirely in device memory at Q4_K_M where it is published, otherwise the nearest published format, and 8,192 tokens. 73 run with some layers on system memory (32 GB assumed), and 94 do not run at all.

48%of the models the engine can size fit entirely
16GB of device memory
672GB/s memory bandwidth
73run with system memory
94do not run at 8,192 tokens

Featured models · Q4_K_M at 8,192 tokens, including offload

ModelNeedsVerdictDecodeCalculator
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B parameters2.32 GBfits~370 tok/sOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.0B parameters3.46 GBfits~172 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct8.8B parameters7.04 GBfits~78 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.5-9B9.7B parameters7.05 GBfits~94 tok/sOpen →
gemma-4-12B-it12B parameters9.54 GBfits~56 tok/sOpen →
gpt-oss-20b21B parameters13.8 GBfits~183 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.8-27B28B parameters18.6 GB10 of 64 layers on system RAM (2.66 GB)~16 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Qwen3.6-27B28B parameters18.6 GB10 of 64 layers on system RAM (2.66 GB)~16 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct49B parameters30.4 GB14 of 27 layers on system RAM (15.3 GB)~58 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next180B parameters111.6 GBneeds 96.7 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp305B parameters188.1 GBneeds 174.2 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
GLM-5.3-Flash321B parameters198.3 GBneeds 184.1 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →

These examples are selected from prominent labs using the catalogue’s latest Hugging Face 30-day downloads and repository-creation freshness signal, with newer releases guaranteed a place. Offloaded rows assume 32 GB of system RAM, and a speed is only shown for a row that runs. Fitting in memory is not the same as loading: whether the runtime and version you have supports each architecture and format on this machine has not been tested here. Each “Open” link carries the same model, format, context and RAM into the calculator.

Fits entirely in NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER memory — 153 of 320 sized models

Every model that fitswhole model resident · offload off

The most demanding model that fits is gpt-neox-20b at Q4_K_M: 15.7 GB of the 16 GB, leaving 0.25 GB spare.

Fully resident at 8,192 tokens (or the model’s own maximum, where that is shorter), offload off, at 672 GB/s. Each row is a run of the engine for this configuration; the rows start with current, prominent releases and “fits” is memory, not a tested runtime. Older or less prominent models remain available through this search and “Show all”.

Showing 40 of 153 models that fit.

ModelFormatNeedsSpareDecodeDownloads / 30dCalculator
Qwen3.5-9BQwen · 9.7B paramsQ4_K_M7.05 GB8.95 GB~94 tok/s9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-4BQwen · 4.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.98 GB12.0 GB~169 tok/s7.8MOpen →
gemma-4-12B-itGoogle · 12B paramsQ4_K_M9.54 GB6.46 GB~56 tok/s1.9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-2BQwen · 2.3B paramsQ4_K_M2.32 GB13.7 GB~370 tok/s4.9MOpen →
gemma-4-E4B-itGoogle · 8.0B paramsQ4_K_M5.86 GB10.1 GB~151 tok/s4.4MOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16NVIDIA · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M3.46 GB12.5 GB~172 tok/s3.4MOpen →
gemma-4-E2B-itGoogle · 5.1B paramsQ4_K_M4.02 GB12.0 GB~399 tok/s3MOpen →
Qwen3.5-0.8BQwen · 873M paramsQ4_K_M1.46 GB14.5 GB~812 tok/s2.6MOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructQwen · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.04 GB8.96 GB~78 tok/s14.6MOpen →
North-Micro-Vision-InstructCohereLabs · 2.5B paramsQ4_K_M2.99 GB13.0 GB~244 tok/s180.7KOpen →
granite-4.2-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB8.51 GB~71 tok/s128.4KOpen →
granite-4.1-3bIBM · 3.4B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB12.3 GB~165 tok/s521.8KOpen →
LFM2.5-2.6BLiquidAI · 2.7B paramsQ4_K_M2.61 GB13.4 GB~265 tok/s108.1KOpen →
Qwen3-VL-4B-InstructQwen · 4.4B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB11.3 GB~123 tok/s3.5MOpen →
Qwen3-VL-2B-InstructQwen · 2.1B paramsQ4_K_M3.05 GB13.0 GB~224 tok/s2.8MOpen →
granite-4.2-3bIBM · 3.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB12.3 GB~165 tok/s50.6KOpen →
LFM2.5-230MLiquidAI · 230M paramsQ4_K_M1.05 GB14.9 GB~1844 tok/s88.6KOpen →
Qwen3-0.6BQwen · 752M paramsQ4_K_M2.22 GB13.8 GB~343 tok/s29.7MOpen →
gpt-oss-20bOpenAI · 21B paramsQ4_K_M13.8 GB2.24 GB~183 tok/s6.6MOpen →
granite-4.1-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB8.51 GB~71 tok/s179.3KOpen →
LFM2.5-VL-3BLiquidAI · 3.1B paramsQ4_K_M2.85 GB13.1 GB~265 tok/s26.7KOpen →
MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9BNEWXiaomiMiMo · 9.4B paramsQ4_K_M6.90 GB9.10 GB~94 tok/s14.6KOpen →
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507Qwen · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB11.3 GB~123 tok/s3.7MOpen →
Ling-3.0-tinyinclusionAI · 7.9B paramsQ4_K_M5.85 GB10.1 GB~533 tok/s17.7KOpen →
Qwen3-8BQwen · 8.2B paramsQ4_K_M7.04 GB8.96 GB~78 tok/s10.7MOpen →
Olmo-3-7B-Instructallenai · 7.3B paramsQ4_K_M7.96 GB8.04 GB~66 tok/s481.7KOpen →
Qwen3-4BQwen · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M4.51 GB11.5 GB~123 tok/s7.8MOpen →
LFM2.5-8B-A1BLiquidAI · 8.5B paramsQ4_K_M6.06 GB9.94 GB~412 tok/s32.4KOpen →
LFM2.5-350MLiquidAI · 354M paramsQ4_K_M1.13 GB14.9 GB~1190 tok/s69.9KOpen →
Hy-MT2-1.8BTencent · 2.0B paramsQ4_K_M2.47 GB13.5 GB~274 tok/s28.9KOpen →
LLaDA2.0-miniinclusionAI · 16B paramsQ4_K_M11.0 GB5.00 GB~427 tok/s217.2KOpen →
LFM2.5-1.2B-InstructLiquidAI · 1.2B paramsQ4_K_M1.63 GB14.4 GB~439 tok/s119.2KOpen →
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512Mistral AI · 14B paramsQ4_K_M10.4 GB5.62 GB~50 tok/s251KOpen →
Qwen3-1.7BQwen · 2.0B paramsQ4_K_M3.02 GB13.0 GB~224 tok/s3.1MOpen →
Nemotron-3.5-Content-SafetyNVIDIA · 4.3B paramsQ4_K_M3.73 GB12.3 GB~165 tok/s14.1KOpen →
Hy-MT2-7BTencent · 8.0B paramsQ4_K_M6.50 GB9.50 GB~80 tok/s15.4KOpen →
Qwen3-14BQwen · 15B paramsQ4_K_M11.1 GB4.86 GB~46 tok/s2.7MOpen →
GLM-4.6V-Flashzai-org · 10B paramsQ4_K_M7.45 GB8.55 GB~80 tok/s103.7KOpen →
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-InstructQwen · 8.3B paramsQ4_K_M6.36 GB9.64 GB~94 tok/s5.8MOpen →
SmolLM3-3BHuggingFaceTB · 3.1B paramsQ4_K_M3.46 GB12.5 GB~182 tok/s617KOpen →

Sized at the format most people actually download, not at FP16. The catalogue ordered by downloads →

Under the hood

The specification behind every figure

What the manufacturer publishes for this device, and the pages it was read from.

Manufacturer specification

Memory scopededicated
Capacity16 GB
Published options16 GB
Bandwidth672 GB/s
Memory typeGDDR6X
Bus width256-bit
FP32 peakNot published
Dense matrix peakNot published without sparsity
PowerNot published

Source ledger

Caveats

  • NVIDIA does not publish this card's memory data rate or bandwidth. The figure is the arithmetic on the interface width and data rate ASUS publishes for the named card — a primary source for that SKU — and is labelled derived for that reason. Cards from other partners use the same memory specification unless their own page says otherwise.
  • The partner's "OC Edition" overclock applies to the GPU clock, not to the memory data rate quoted.
  • No board power is recorded: the partner page's power figure is for its own cooler and power design, not NVIDIA's reference.
  • No dense matrix throughput is published for this device in a form this catalogue accepts, so no compute roof is priced and time to first token is withheld.

Published capacity is a hardware ceiling, not guaranteed free runtime memory. The calculator shows the runtime reserve separately rather than folding it into a single number.

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