RTX 5070 Ti 16GB vs Titan V 12GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 5070 Ti 16GB has about 37% more memory bandwidth (896 vs 652.8 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 37% faster on the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB. The RTX 5070 Ti 16GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 24 vs 18 of 69 models (16 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB but not the Titan V 12GB: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (25.2B). MSRP is $749 for the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB vs $2,999 for the Titan V 12GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (41 shared models), the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 35 rows vs 6. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB	Titan V 12GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	16 GB	12 GB
Memory type	GDDR7	HBM2
Memory bandwidth	896 GB/s	652.8 GB/s
TDP	300 W	250 W
MSRP (list)	$749	$2,999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 41 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB tok/s	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB fits	Titan V 12GB tok/s	Titan V 12GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	527.9 est.	Yes	384.6 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	451.0 est.	No	184.6 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	410.2 est.	No	167.9 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	393.8 est.	No	161.2 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	341.0 est.	No	139.6 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	323.7 est.	No	132.5 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	318.8 est.	No	130.5 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	317.9 est.	No	130.1 est.	No	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	285.1 est.	Yes	207.7 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	189.5 measured	Yes	257.5 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	247.9 est.	Yes	180.6 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	150.0 est.	Yes	183.6 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	178.2 est.	Yes	129.8 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	7.2	160.2 measured	Yes	57.7 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	142.5 est.	Yes	103.9 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	RTX 5070 Ti 16GB	Titan V 12GB
Catalog models that fit	24 of 69	18 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (25.2B)	—

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