RTX 5070 Ti: 16 GB, what it runs and what it costs
Specs checked · Rental prices from 51m ago · Aliteq Team · How we compute this
The short answer
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has 16 GB of VRAM and 896 GB/s of memory bandwidth (2025). At Q4_K_M quality or better with an 8K context it runs 17 of the open models we track; the largest that fits with room to spare is DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B. The cheapest rental right now is $0.120/hr (Vast.ai, interruptible).
- VRAM
- 16 GB
- Bandwidth
- 896 GB/s
- Board power
- 300 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 Ti
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Eagle OC ICE SFF 16GB
New, from Amazon. Check the exact model says 16 GB before you buy.
Best for: The 1440p gaming sweet spot; local models up to about 14B at Q4, more with MoE offload.
Today's price shows on Amazon · Referral link
| Provider | Type | From, per hour | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | Spot (can be interrupted) | $0.120/hr | Vast.ai |
| Vast.ai | On demand | $0.161/hr | Vast.ai |
| Lium | On demand | $0.220/hr | Lium |
| Lium | Spot (can be interrupted) | $0.250/hr | Lium |
Lowest price per provider in our hourly snapshot (51m ago). Rent buttons are referral links. Every card side by side: cloud GPU prices.
Which AI models run on the RTX 5070 Ti
Computed by our VRAM engine for an 8K context: the best quality each model fits at in 16 GB. Speeds are upper-bound estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks.
| Model | Best fit | VRAM used | ~tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) | Q4_K_M | 16 GB97% · tight | — |
| Mistral Small 24B | Q4_K_M | 15 GB96% · tight | — |
| gpt-oss 20B (MoE) | Q5_K_M | 15 GB94% · tight | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B | Q6_K | 14 GB85% | — |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 14B | Q6_K | 14 GB85% | — |
| Qwen3 14B | Q6_K | 13 GB83% | — |
| Phi-4 14B | Q6_K | 14 GB85% | — |
| Gemma 3 12B | Q8_0 | 13 GB83% | — |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | 13 GB80% | — |
| Qwen3.5 9B | Q8_0 | 11 GB66% | — |
| Qwen3 8B | Q8_0 | 10 GB63% | — |
| Gemma 4 E4B | F16 | 16 GB99% · tight | — |
Fits only below Q4 quality: Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), Ornith-1.5 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B (Q2_K), Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (Q2_K).
Too big for 16 GB (rent a bigger card instead): what it costs to run Mixtral 8x7B (MoE), what it costs to run DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B, what it costs to run Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE), what it costs to run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE).
Check a model and context of your own in the VRAM calculator.
AI video on the RTX 5070 Ti
Alibaba's Wan 2.2 is an open video model you can run yourself in ComfyUI. With 16 GB the RTX 5070 Ti 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 Ti
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- RTX 5070 Ti price increase: $749 MSRP, $1,189.99 at Best Buy today
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- Which gaming laptop should you buy for your budget? Check the GPU watts first
Cards to compare it with
- RTX 5080 · 16 GB
- RTX 4080 SUPER · 16 GB
- RTX 4080 · 16 GB
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · 16 GB
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT · 16 GB
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 · 16 GB
Every card by VRAM tier: all GPUs for gaming and local AI.