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DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB runs DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B excellently at 55 tok/s at Q4_K_M. This is a strong pairing.

Model Size

15.7B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q4_K_M55 tok/s140ms✓ YesExcellentestimated

Notes

Q4_K_M

Best coding model for 12GB. MoE efficiency + good quantization = excellent experience.

About DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B

DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B (15.7B) is a coding, ai coding, ai building model. MoE architecture — 15.7B total, ~2.4B active per token. Excellent code generation and completion. Extremely fast inference despite total param count. One of the best coding models for its effective size.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has 12 GB at 504 GB/s. Street price: $749.

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Source: MoE model. Q4_K_M 9.1GB fits with headroom. 504 GB/s bandwidth ideal (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01