Can RTX 3070 8GB run gemma-4-12b-it?

NVIDIA · 8 GB GDDR6 · 448 GB/s bandwidth · Google · 11.95B · model ctx up to 256K

No — gemma-4-12b-it at Q4 needs ≈ 8.77 GB even at 4K context, beyond the RTX 3070 8GB's 8 GB GDDR6. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 44.0 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 27.29 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	8.77 GB	No	56.7 est.
Q4	8K default	9.96 GB	No	44.0 est.
Q4	32K	17.13 GB	No	14.9 est.
FP16	4K	26.09 GB	No	1.8 est.
FP16	8K default	27.29 GB	No	1.6 est.
FP16	32K	34.46 GB	No	—

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	RTX 3070 8GB VRAM
Q4	6.57 GB	2.39 GB	1 GB	9.96 GB	8 GB
FP16	23.9 GB	2.39 GB	1 GB	27.29 GB	8 GB

Other GPUs that run gemma-4-12b-it

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈426.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈282.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈255.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈178.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈174.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈108.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈95.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 4090 24GB — ≈53.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for gemma-4-12b-it →

Other models for the RTX 3070 8GB

• MiniCPM5-1B — ≈264.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.5-2B — ≈142.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈89.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 — ≈71.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 — ≈71.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 — ≈71.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-4-E2B-it — ≈55.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 — ≈39.6 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the RTX 3070 8GB →