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Phi-3 Mini 3.8B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB runs Phi-3 Mini 3.8B Instruct excellently at 78 tok/s at Q8_0. This is a strong pairing.

Model Size

3.82B

Device VRAM

12 GB

Bandwidth

504 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

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Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Phi-3 Mini 3.8B Instruct performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q8_078 tok/s85ms✓ YesExcellentestimated

Notes

Q8_0

Q8_0 4.5GB fits with 7.5GB headroom. Full quality.

About Phi-3 Mini 3.8B Instruct

Phi-3 Mini 3.8B Instruct (3.82B) is a chat, coding, reasoning model. Punches above its weight — a 3.8B model that rivals many 7B models on reasoning benchmarks. MIT license. Excellent for resource-constrained setups or as a fast secondary model.

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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: Performance estimates based on model size and device bandwidth (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01