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Gemma 3 27B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB cannot run Gemma 3 27B at any quantization level. The 12 GB of VRAM is insufficient.

Model Size

27.23B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

1

Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Gemma 3 27B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_M✗ OffloadNot Viableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

Requires 16GB+ for viable quality.

About Gemma 3 27B

Gemma 3 27B (27.23B) is a chat, coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Google's strongest open-weight model. Excellent reasoning and instruction following. At 27B parameters, it's the sweet spot between 8B models (too limited) and 70B models (too expensive). Strong multilingual support. Fits on 24GB GPUs at Q4.

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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: Q3_K_M 13.3GB exceeds 12GB (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-15