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RTX 4070 for local AI

RTX 4070 provides 12 GB of VRAM for local AI. In the LocalIA catalog, 168 out of 242 models run comfortably on a single card.

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VRAM
12GB
Category
Consumer
Series
RTX 40
Vendor
NVIDIA

Models that run comfortably

These models fit in 12 GB with room for context and stable inference.

DeepSeek V2 Litedeepseek10.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
DeepSeek Coder V2 Litedeepseek10.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
StarCoder 2 15Bstarcoder9.4 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Phi-4 Reasoning Vision 15Bphi9.4 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Qwen 2.5 14Bqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 14Bqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Qwen 3 14Bqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 14Bdeepseek8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
Phi-3 Medium 14Bphi8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Phi-4 14Bphi8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★GLM-4.5 Airglm8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Qwen2.5 14B Instructqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Qwen3 14Bqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instructqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Bqwen8.8 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 12 GB
Llama 2 13Bllama10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
CodeLlama 13Bcodellama10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
OLMo 2 13Bolmo10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
Vicuna 13Bvicuna10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
★Mistral Nemo 12Bmistral9.2 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
★Gemma 3 12Bgemma9.2 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
StableLM 2 12Bstable9.2 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
Solar 10.7Bsolar8.2 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
Falcon 3 10Bfalcon7.7 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 12 GB
★Gemma 2 9Bgemma10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB
Yi 1.5 9Byi10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB
★Qwen 3.5 9Bqwen10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB
★GLM-4 9Bglm10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB
★GLM-4.7 Flashglm10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB
GLM-4.1V 9B Thinkingglm10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 12 GB

Unlocked in a 2x rig

With two cards in parallel (24 GB total), larger models become reachable.

Command R 35Bcommand22.0 GBtightQ4 · / 24 GB
Aya 23 35Baya22.0 GBtightQ4 · / 24 GB
CodeLlama 34Bcodellama21.4 GBtightQ4 · / 24 GB
Yi 1.5 34Byi21.4 GBtightQ4 · / 24 GB
★dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34byi21.4 GBtightQ4 · / 24 GB
★Qwen 2.5 32Bqwen20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★Qwen 2.5 Coder 32Bqwen20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★Qwen 3 32Bqwen20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★QwQ 32Bqwq20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 32Bdeepseek20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 32Bqwen20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★Granite 4 H-Small 32B-A9Bgranite20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
GLM-4.6glm20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★GLM-4.7glm20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB
★GLM-5glm20.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 24 GB

Unlocked in a 4x rig

Server-style configuration (48 GB total) for the largest open-weight models.

★Qwen 2.5 72Bqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 72Bqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 2 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 3 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 3.1 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Llama 3.3 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
CodeLlama 70Bcodellama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 70Bdeepseek44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Hermes 3 70Bhermes44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB

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VRAM estimates updated 2026-05-12.