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Can I run Falcon3 10B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB)?
Yes. Falcon3 10B runs on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) at Q4_K_M (~7.5 GB of ~11 GB usable).
Runs at Q4_K_M using ~7.5 GB of ~11 GB usable.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) leaves ~3.5 GB of headroom.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~7.5 GB
- Usable on device
- ~11 GB
- Device memory
- 12 GB
- Best quant
- Q4_K_M
Which quant fits
Running cost · estimate
- Power draw
- ~200 W
- Electricity / 1M tokens
- ~$0.15
- Pays for itself after
- ~1,711M tok
At ~$0.15/kWh and the estimated ~56 tok/s, a million generated tokens costs about $0.15 in electricity. Versus a hosted API at ~$0.5 per million tokens, the ~$599 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) pays for itself after roughly 1,711 million tokens, so local hardware is mostly a fixed cost, not a per-token one. TDP is the peak draw, so this is an upper bound. Assumptions.
Run it
Pick your tool. All 3 load the same Q4_K_M weights.
ollama run falcon3:10b llama-cli -hf bartowski/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M lms get bartowski/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF - Parameters
- 10B
- Q4_K_M size
- 5.86 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 10.2 GB
- Context
- 32k
- Ollama tag
- falcon3:10b
- Memory
- 12 GB vram
- Usable for weights
- ~11 GB
- Power draw
- ~200 W
- Best runtime
- Ollama (CUDA) / vLLM (Linux)
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FAQ
Can Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) run Falcon3 10B?
Yes. Falcon3 10B runs on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) at Q4_K_M (~7.5 GB of ~11 GB usable).
How much memory does Falcon3 10B need?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB) has room to spare. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~5.86 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~7.5 GB at a 4k context.
What is the best tool to run Falcon3 10B on Windows?
LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.
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Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.