Can I Run Gemma 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2025年3月12日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.9 GB of headroom running Gemma 3 12B Instruct at Q4_K_M (8.1 GB, ~62 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Specs

VRAM	12 GB
Memory Bandwidth	504 GB/s

Gemma 3 12B Instruct on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070: VRAM by quantization

Quant	VRAM needed	Fits 12 GB?	Max context
F16	26.3 GB	✗ No	—
Q8_0	15.1 GB	✗ No	—
Q6_K	12.2 GB	✗ No	—
Q5_K_M	10.8 GB	✓ Yes	4K
Q4_K_M	9.6 GB	✓ Yes	8K
Q3_K_M	7.5 GB	✓ Yes	8K
Q2_K	6.3 GB	✓ Yes	16K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 12 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Gemma 3 Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Gemma 3 12B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 8.1 GB · ~62 tok/s (est.)
Gemma 3 4B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 3.8 GB · ~133 tok/s (est.)
Gemma 3 1B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 0.9 GB · ~400 tok/s (est.)

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