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Can the NVIDIA GTX 1070 run gemma3 4B?

FULL

3.8 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context

8GB · Pascal · model file 3.3GB · 4B

~22–39 tok/s

computed roofline: 256 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 3.3GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run gemma3 4B on instead

→ Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs gemma3 4B fully ($35)

→ rtx-5060-ti-16 — the next step up from NVIDIA GTX 1070

→ every model the NVIDIA GTX 1070 can run — full list

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2026-10-01 · ← all models on the NVIDIA GTX 1070 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory