Can the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super run Gemma 3 4B?

RTX 4070 Ti Super × Gemma 3 4B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP169.5 GB of 16 GB
Weights 8.6 GBKV cache 0.3 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~47tokens per second
Max context128Kthe model's full window
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super can run Gemma 3 4B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 9.5 GB of the 16 GB available, at roughly 47 tokens/second.

Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Gemma 3 4B:

ollama run gemma3:4b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 3.5 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

New to this? Step-by-step setup for the RTX 4070 Ti Super

Run it in the cloud

No NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super? Run Gemma 3 4B in the cloud.

Rent a cloud GPU by the hour. No upfront cost, stop any time.

Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 16 GB the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality9.5 GBFits~47 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless5.5 GBFits~88 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent4.4 GBFits~114 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good3.9 GBFits~132 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular3.5 GBFits~155 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded3 GBFits~192 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded2.5 GBFits~250 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX 4070 Ti Super owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Gemma 3 4B on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX 4070 Ti Super? Add your real speed

One command times Gemma 3 4B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- gemma3:4b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="gemma3:4b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super run Gemma 3 4B?

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super can run Gemma 3 4B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 9.5 GB of the 16 GB available, at roughly 47 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Gemma 3 4B need?

About 3.5 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 9.5 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Gemma 3 4B on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super?

Roughly 47 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super's 672 GB/s memory bandwidth.