~/gpu/rtx-4060-ti vs rtx-5070-ti

RTX 4060 Ti 16GBvsRTX 5070 Ti

Head-to-head for local LLM inference. The honest comparison: VRAM, bandwidth, compute, and which of the 30 catalog models actually fit on each.

The specs.

$ diff specs rtx-4060-ti rtx-5070-ti

Stat

rtx-4060-ti

rtx-5070-ti

VRAM

16 GB

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

896 GB/s

+211%

FP16 compute

175 TFLOPS

510 TFLOPS

+191%

Weights budget at 8K ctx

12 GB

Model fit difference.

$ models that change with the card

Fits on both

16of 30

Only on rtx-4060-ti

Only on rtx-5070-ti

// showing 12 of 30 models; differing fits first

Model

rtx-4060-ti

rtx-5070-ti

fitsFP16/BF16

fitsFP16/BF16

fitsQ8_0

overQ4_K_M

overQ4_K_M

fitsQ8_0

overQ4_K_M

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overQ4_K_M

overQ4_K_M

overQ4_K_M

fitsQ8_0

fitsQ3_K_M

Which one wins for…

$ ./recommend --by-workload

More VRAM headroom

Tied at 16 GB. Choose on bandwidth or price.

Faster decode (bandwidth)

RTX 5070 Ti by +211%.

Faster prefill (compute)

RTX 5070 Ti by +191% TFLOPS.

Catalog models that fit

Tied: 16 of 30 fit on each.

Discussion.

$ gh discussion list

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The specs.

Model fit difference.

Which one wins for…

Drill into either card.

Discussion.

RTX 4060 Ti 16GBvsRTX 5070 Ti