Calculate the TPS of the GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q on local AI models
Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.
Calculated for this card
721 models in our catalogue altogether
Largest model it holds
Baichuan 1-13B
13.3B · Q3_K_M · 33.1 tok/s
Fastest model
Gemma 3 QAT 1B
163 tok/s · 1B
Which AI models can run on a GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q?
Set the inputs, read the answer
More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.
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351 models match
Calculating| Quantisation | Fit | ||||||
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163
tok/s
138–195 |
Gemma 3 1B | 1B | Mar 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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163
tok/s
138–195 |
Gemma 3 QAT 1B | 1B | Apr 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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163
tok/s
98–260 · low confidence |
HGRN 1B (WT 103) ≈ | 1B | Nov 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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163
tok/s
98–260 · low confidence |
LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B ≈ | 1B | Dec 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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163
tok/s
98–260 · low confidence |
OLMo-1B ≈ | 1B | Feb 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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163
tok/s
98–260 · low confidence |
Pythia-1b ≈ | 1B | Apr 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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151
tok/s
90–241 · low confidence |
OpenELM-1.1B ≈ | 1.1B | May 2024 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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148
tok/s
89–237 · low confidence |
DeciCoder-1B ≈ | 1.1B | Aug 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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148
tok/s
89–237 · low confidence |
SantaCoder ≈ | 1.1B | Jan 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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148
tok/s
89–237 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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148
tok/s
89–237 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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136
tok/s
81–217 · low confidence |
EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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136
tok/s
81–217 · low confidence |
LFM2-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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136
tok/s
81–217 · low confidence |
MinerU2.5 ≈ | 1.2B | Sep 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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136
tok/s
81–217 · low confidence |
Pleias 1.0 1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Dec 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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136
tok/s
81–217 · low confidence |
Pleias-RAG-1B ≈ | 1.2B | Apr 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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132
tok/s
112–159 |
Llama 3.2 1B | 1.2B | Sep 2024 | 2.2 GB | 131k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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130
tok/s
78–209 · low confidence |
MiniCPM-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jun 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Jan 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
DeepSeek-VL-1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Mar 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
DigiRL ≈ | 1.3B | Jun 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
GLA Transformer 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
Janus 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
Kosmos-2.5 ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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125
tok/s
75–200 · low confidence |
Otter ≈ | 1.3B | May 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q full specification
Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.
Memory
The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.
- Memory size
- 8 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 384 GB/s
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1.5 GHz
The chip
Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.
- Graphics processor
- GA104
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Generation
- GeForce 30 Mobile
- Foundry
- Samsung
- Process size
- 8 nm
- Transistors
- 17.4 billion
- Transistor density
- 44,400 K/mm²
- Die size
- 392 mm²
- Package
- BGA-2713
- Released
- 12 January 2021
Clock speeds
How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.
- Base clock
- 780 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1.29 GHz
Processing units
What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.
- Shading units
- 5,120
- Texture mapping units
- 160
- Render output units
- 80
- Streaming multiprocessors
- 40
- Tensor cores
- 160
- Ray tracing cores
- 40
- L1 cache
- 128 KB
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
Theoretical performance
Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.
- Half precision (FP16)
- 13.2 TFLOPS
- Single precision (FP32)
- 13.2 TFLOPS
- Double precision (FP64)
- 206.4 GFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 103 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 206 GTexel/s
The board
What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.
- Power draw (TDP)
- 80 W
- Power connectors
- None
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
Software support
Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.
- CUDA compute capability
- 8.6
- DirectX
- 12.2
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- Vulkan
- 1.4
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Shader model
- 6.8
Listings
Where to buy a GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.
What the numbers mean
Why memory is the number that matters here
Memory
8 GB
Bandwidth
384 GB/s
Largest model
Baichuan 1-13B
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q carries only 8 GB of GDDR6. That limits it to the smaller end of the catalogue, and a model has to fit entirely inside before it generates anything at all. A runtime actually gets about 7.2 GB.
Memory bandwidth reaches 384 GB/s across a bus of 256 bits. That is the number governing generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.
The figure is the bus width multiplied by a memory clock of 1.5 GHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.
The practical ceiling is Baichuan 1-13B, 13.3B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 33.1 tokens per second.
The chip and how it was built
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is built on the graphics processor GA104, using the architecture Ampere from NVIDIA, as part of the generation GeForce 30 Mobile.
The chip is manufactured by Samsung, on a process of 8 nm, with a die measuring 392 mm², holding 17.4 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.
It was released in January 2021, roughly 5.6705025590194 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.
Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks
FP16
13.2 TFLOPS
FP64
206.4 GFLOPS
Tensor cores
160
On paper GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q reaches 13.2 TFLOPS at half precision, and 13.2 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.
Double-precision throughput reaches 206.4 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.
The card carries 160 tensor cores across 40 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.
Clocks run from a base of 780 MHz to a boost of 1.29 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.
Cache and processing units
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q has an L1 cache of 128 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 4 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.
There are 5,120 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.
Power, size and installation
Power draw
80 W
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is rated at 80 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.
It connects over PCIe 4.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.
The extremes
The largest AI models that run on a GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.
The fastest AI models on a GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.
Step by step
How to work out the tokens per second of a GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.
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Start with the model, not the specification
The table lists 351 models this card can run. Search by name, or by size — typing 27b matches on the parameter count even when the name never states it.
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Decide how long your conversations run
Set the context to your real working length. Short questions cost almost nothing, but a long document can consume a large share of 8 GB that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.
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Pin the comparison to one quality level
Each model is shown at the best compression this card can hold. A minimum quality hides the ones that only fit by being squeezed further than you would accept.
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Look at the range, not just the number
The figures are calculated, not measured. The fastest result on this card is 163 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.
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Read the fit verdict last
A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against an available 8 GB.
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Cross-check against other hardware
Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q.
Answers
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q — common questions
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— is it good for running local AI models?
Its memory limits it to smaller models though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 351 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?
Offloading past the card's 8 GB is possible and usually a false economy: the system-memory portion is slow enough to dominate the result.
Would two GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q cards be twice as fast?
No. A second card doubles the memory to 16 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single card.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— which AI models can it run?
351 of the 721 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— what is the largest AI model it can run?
The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 33.1 tokens per second and needs about 7.2 GB of the card's memory.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— how many tokens per second does it produce?
It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 163 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— can it run 7B models?
Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q5_K_M, using about 7.0 GB of memory and generating around 64.5 tokens per second.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— can it run 13B models?
Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 12B at Q3_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 36.7 tokens per second.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— how much memory does it have?
This card has 8 GB of GDDR6. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 7.2 GB available for a model and its conversation.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— what is its memory bandwidth?
Memory bandwidth reaches 384 GB/s across a bus of 256 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— what type of memory does it use?
It uses GDDR6 clocked at 1.5 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— who makes it?
This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by Samsung, on a process of 8 nm.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— when was it released?
It was released in January 2021.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— how much power does it use?
Rated board power is 80 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— how much cache does it have?
The L1 cache is 128 KB, and the L2 cache is 4 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— what are its TFLOPS?
It is rated at 13.2 TFLOPS at half precision and 13.2 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— how many tensor cores does it have?
It has 160 tensor cores across 40 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— does it support CUDA?
Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 8.6. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q— what bus interface does it use?
It uses PCIe 4.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.