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FLUX.1 Dev on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB cannot run FLUX.1 Dev at any quantization level. The 12 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

12B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows FLUX.1 Dev performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q8_0✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q8_0

12B image model. Q8_0 needs 13GB. Q4_K_M (7.2GB) would fit but quality loss significant.

About FLUX.1 Dev

FLUX.1 Dev (12B) is a image gen model. State-of-the-art image generation. Significantly better prompt adherence and image quality than SDXL. 12B parameter transformer model (not diffusion UNet). FP16 requires 24GB VRAM, but Q4 quantization brings it to 8GB GPUs. Non-commercial license.

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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: Q8_0 13GB exceeds 12GB. FP16 23.8GB far exceeds (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01