Can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 run Qwen 2.5 72B?
72B parameter LLM model on 12GB GDDR6X
No — not enough VRAM
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QualityN/A
VRAM Requirements
Qwen 2.5 72B is a 72B parameter model. At full precision (FP16), it requires 144GB of VRAM. Your NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 only has 12GB — not enough even at maximum compression.
FP16 (Full Precision)144GB (need 132GB more)
Maximum quality, no quantization
Q8 (8-bit)72GB (need 60GB more)
Near-lossless, ~50% size reduction
Q4 (4-bit)42GB (need 30GB more)
Good quality, ~75% size reduction
Your GPU VRAM: 12GB GDDR6X at 504 GB/s bandwidth
Recommended system RAM: 32GB DDR5 (2x GPU VRAM minimum for model overflow)
Recommended system RAM: 32GB DDR5 (2x GPU VRAM minimum for model overflow)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Specs
VRAM12GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth504 GB/s
TDP200W
CUDA Cores5,888
Street Price~$500
AI Rating5/10
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About Qwen 2.5 72B
Top open LLM for reasoning. Similar requirements to Llama 70B.
Category: LLM · Parameters: 72B · CUDA required: No (runs via llama.cpp/GGUF)