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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 run llama3.2 3B?

FULL

2.4 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context

12GB · Blackwell · model file 2.0GB · 3B

~190–270 tok/s

computed roofline: 672 GB/s × 0.56–0.80 efficiency window / 2.0GB (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).

Community check: ~180 tok/s · 3-4B Q4 · 3 runs · inside our computed band — localmaxxing.com

Run llama3.2 3B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llama3.2 3B fully ($110)

rtx-5070-ti — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

every model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 can run — full list

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