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Can the RTX 5070 Ti Run Qwen2.5 32B?

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Not entirely. Qwen2.5 32B at Q4_K_M is a 19.9 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF), about 3.9 GB more than the RTX 5070 Ti's 16 GB, so the remainder has to be offloaded to system RAM. Generation speed is then set by system-memory and PCIe bandwidth rather than by the GPU, so no tokens-per-second figure is quoted for this pair. The smallest card in this matrix that holds it entirely is the Tesla P40 24GB (24 GB).

Model file19.9 GBQ4_K_M
VRAM16 GBRTX 5070 Ti
Headroom3.9 GB shortafter weights
Median speed—0 cited runs
Bandwidth ceiling~45 tok/s896 GB/s ÷ 19.85 GB

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Published runs for Qwen2.5 32B on the RTX 5070 Ti

No published run for this pair has passed the checks yet.

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How much VRAM does Qwen2.5 32B need?

The Q4_K_M file is 19.9 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 21.4 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.

What speed does Qwen2.5 32B reach on the RTX 5070 Ti?

No published run of Qwen2.5 32B on the RTX 5070 Ti has been cited yet. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the RTX 5070 Ti's 896 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 19.85 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 45 tokens per second once the whole model is resident. That is an upper bound, not a speed estimate: kernel, launch and compute overhead keep real runs below it.

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Other models on the RTX 5070 Ti

How the checks work

The fit is the Q4_K_M file size against the card's VRAM, with 1.5 GB kept for the runtime and an ~8K context. A published run counts only if the pair fits, the run is Q4-class, its source does not call it an estimate, it is under the bandwidth ceiling (memory bandwidth ÷ GB read per token: the whole file for a dense model, only the active experts' weights for a mixture-of-experts model such as gpt-oss-20b or Qwen3 30B-A3B, which is why those can post figures above bandwidth ÷ file size), it is not slower than the same card on a model twice its size, a single run is not slower than the same card on a larger dense model, and it is not one figure pasted across many cards. The whole matrix is downloadable as a CSV under CC BY 4.0.

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