TinyLlama on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 · 12GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — TinyLlama 1.1B @ FP16
TinyLlama 1.1B at FP16 needs ~2.7 GB (weights 2.0 GB + KV 176 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 10.8 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~90–150 tok/s (very fast).
context @ FP16: comfortable to 2K
quantneedsspeed
FP162.7 GB~90–150 tok/s (very fast)
Q8_01.8 GB~160–270 tok/s (very fast)
Q4_K_M1.3 GB~260–430 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install tinyllama:1.1b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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TinyLlama: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Gemma 4

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