RTX 5070: 12 GB, what it runs and what it costs
Specs checked · Rental prices from 18m ago · Aliteq Team · How we compute this
The short answer
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 has 12 GB of VRAM and 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth (2025). At Q4_K_M quality or better with an 8K context it runs 14 of the open models we track; the largest that fits with room to spare is Gemma 3 12B. The cheapest rental right now is $0.073/hr (Vast.ai, interruptible).
- VRAM
- 12 GB
- Bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- Board power
- 250 W
- Launched
- 2025
Source: NVIDIA specification · bandwidth not yet confirmed by a second source, so we don't estimate speed from it
Buy it or rent it
Buy an RTX 5070
ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC (White)
New, from Amazon. Check the exact model says 12 GB before you buy.
Best for: 1080p and light 1440p gaming; small local models (7–8B) at good quality.
Today's price shows on Amazon · Referral link
| Provider | Type | From, per hour | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | Spot (can be interrupted) | $0.073/hr | Vast.ai |
| Vast.ai | On demand | $0.125/hr | Vast.ai |
Lowest price per provider in our hourly snapshot (18m ago). Rent buttons are referral links. Every card side by side: cloud GPU prices.
Which AI models run on the RTX 5070
Computed by our VRAM engine for an 8K context: the best quality each model fits at in 12 GB. Speeds are upper-bound estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks.
| Model | Best fit | VRAM used | ~tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B | Q5_0 | 12 GB98% · tight | — |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 14B | Q5_0 | 12 GB98% · tight | — |
| Qwen3 14B | Q5_K_M | 12 GB98% · tight | — |
| Phi-4 14B | Q5_0 | 12 GB98% · tight | — |
| Gemma 3 12B | Q6_K | 11 GB88% | — |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q6_K | 10 GB84% | — |
| Qwen3.5 9B | Q8_0 | 11 GB88% | — |
| Qwen3 8B | Q8_0 | 10 GB83% | — |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | 9 GB73% | — |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Q8_0 | 9 GB73% | — |
| Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 | Q8_0 | 9 GB75% | — |
| Gemma 4 E2B | F16 | 10 GB86% | — |
Fits only below Q4 quality: Qwen3.5 27B (IQ3_XS), Qwen3.6 27B (IQ3_XS), Qwen3.8 27B (IQ3_XS), Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) (Q2_K), Mistral Small 24B (Q2_K).
Too big for 12 GB (rent a bigger card instead): what it costs to run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE), what it costs to run Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B (MoE), what it costs to run Gemma 4 31B, what it costs to run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B (MoE).
Check a model and context of your own in the VRAM calculator.
AI video on the RTX 5070
Alibaba's Wan 2.2 is an open video model you can run yourself in ComfyUI. With 12 GB the RTX 5070 fits:
- Wan 2.2 5B, with ComfyUI's native offloading (8 GB and up, per ComfyUI's Wan 2.2 docs)
What each setup needs, the cheapest card to rent and what one clip costs: cloud GPUs for ComfyUI with Flux and Wan 2.2. Against an app or an API: AI video cost per clip, app vs API vs rented GPU. Rather not run a model yourself? Hosted video models such as Seedance, Veo and Hailuo are compared in Kling AI alternatives, priced per clip.
Our guides on the RTX 5070
- CompareRTX 5070 or RX 9070: which should you buy for gaming and local AI right now?
- CompareRTX 5070 or RX 9070 XT for 1440p gaming? The RX 9070 XT, at today's prices
- walmart's '$501 off' RTX 5070 gaming PC deal is hiding a $450 problem in the spec sheet
- RX 9070 or RTX 5070: which should you buy at today's prices?
- everyone's ignoring the $300 GPU that almost matches a $900 RTX 5070 — here's the catch
- this RTX 5070 gaming PC just hit its lowest price ever — the real math on $1,399
- Nvidia sold GPUs at MSRP for one weekend. everywhere else, prices just jumped 39%
- AMD's RX 9070 GRE just dropped to $499 — while every other GPU gets more expensive
Cards to compare it with
- RTX 4070 Ti · 12 GB
- RTX 4070 SUPER · 12 GB
- RTX 4070 · 12 GB
- RTX 3080 Ti · 12 GB
- RTX 3080 · 12 GB
- RTX 3060 · 12 GB
Every card by VRAM tier: all GPUs for gaming and local AI.