# Best local LLMs for Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB)

Updated: 2026-10-05

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB): 8 GB vram, ~7 GB usable. Runs 57 of 155 tracked models.

- Ornith 1.5 9B (9B): tight
- Granite 4.1 8B (8.8B): tight
- LFM2.5 8B-A1B (8.3B): tight
- DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (8.19B): tight
- Llama 3.1 8B (8B): tight
- Qwen3 8B (8B): tight
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B (8B): tight
- Gemma 3n E4B (8B): runs
- Gemma 4 E4B (8B): tight
- Ministral 3 8B (8B): tight
- RNJ-1 8B (8B): tight
- Granite 4.2 8B (8B): tight

More: https://localmodel.run/best-llm-for/nvidia-gtx-1070-8gb