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Best GPUs for 7B-class local LLMs

We treat '7B-class' as open-weight models with 4–12B parameters — 8 in our catalog. The table ranks every catalog GPU that fully fits at least one of them at Q4 / 8K context, by average estimated decode tok/s across the models it fits. Fit means weights + KV cache + 1 GB runtime overhead within 95% of VRAM — not weights alone. Methodology.

#GPUVRAM (GB)Bandwidth (GB/s)MSRPFitsAvg Q4 tok/sBuy
1B200 192GB SXM1928,000$40,0008/8737.5 est.
2MI300X 192GB1925,300$15,0008/8488.6 est.
3H200 141GB SXM51414,800$35,0008/8442.5 est.
4H100 80GB SXM5803,350$30,0008/8308.8 est.
5Gaudi 3 128GB1283,276$12,5008/8302.0 est.
6RTX 5090 32GB321,792$1,9998/8186.3 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
7A100 80GB SXM4802,039$15,0008/8185.9 incl. measured
8RTX 4090 24GB241,008$1,5998/8116.1 incl. measuredGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB (affiliate) · More listings
9RTX 6000 Ada 48GB48960$6,8008/8106.5 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
10RTX 5080 16GB16960$9998/8105.8 incl. measuredNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (affiliate) · More listings
11RTX 5070 Ti 16GB16896$7498/8100.3 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
12RTX 3090 Ti 24GB241,008$1,9998/892.9 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
13RTX 4090D 24GB (China)241,008$1,5998/892.9 est.
14RTX 3090 24GB24936$1,4998/886.9 incl. measuredMSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC (affiliate) · More listings
15RX 7900 XTX 24GB24960$9998/885.0 incl. measuredASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming 24GB OC (affiliate) · More listings
16L40S 48GB48864$8,0008/879.7 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
17Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB96819$3,9998/875.5 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
18RTX 5070 12GB12672$5498/875.5 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
19RX 7900 XT 20GB20800$8998/873.8 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
20RTX 3080 10GB10760$6998/871.2 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
21RTX A6000 48GB48768$4,5008/870.8 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
22RX 9070 XT 16GB16640$5998/869.6 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
23RX 9070 16GB16640$5498/869.2 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
24Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB192800$6,9998/868.9 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
25RTX 4080 Super 16GB16736$9998/867.8 incl. measuredASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 4080 Super OC (affiliate) · More listings
26RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB16672$7998/867.2 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
27RX 7800 XT 16GB16624$4998/859.8 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
28RX 7900 GRE 16GB16576$5498/853.1 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
29RTX 5060 Ti 16GB16448$4298/852.6 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
30Arc A770 16GB16560$3498/851.6 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
31RTX 4070 Ti 12GB12554$7998/851.1 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
32MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB128546$4,3998/850.3 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
33RTX 4070 12GB12504$5998/848.0 incl. measuredASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC 12GB (affiliate) · More listings
34RTX 4070 Super 12GB12504$5998/846.5 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
35Arc B580 12GB12456$2498/842.0 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
36RTX 3070 8GB8448$4998/841.3 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
37RTX 5060 8GB8448$2998/841.3 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
38RTX 5060 Ti 8GB8448$3798/841.3 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
39RX 7700 XT 12GB12432$4498/839.8 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
40MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB128400$4,1998/837.6 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
41Arc B570 10GB10380$2198/835.0 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
42RTX 3060 12GB12360$3298/834.8 incl. measuredMSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G OC (affiliate) · More listings
43RTX 4060 Ti 16GB16288$4998/829.9 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)
44T4 16GB16320$2,0008/829.5 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
45RTX 4060 Ti 8GB8288$3998/826.6 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
46RX 7600 8GB8288$2698/826.6 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
47RX 7600 XT 16GB16288$3298/826.6 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
48Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB64273$2,1998/825.2 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
49RTX 4060 8GB8272$2998/825.1 est.Search Amazon (affiliate)
50Mac mini M4 32GB32120$9998/812.5 incl. measuredSearch Amazon (affiliate)

Averages mix estimated rows with measured anchors where they exist — per-model labels live on each hardware page. MSRP is launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices change; click a Buy link for the current price. GPUs that fit none of this class are omitted.

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