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NVIDIA RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti for local LLMs

Across 2 tests measured on both, the two are about even (median ratio 1.03×).

On Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, LocalScore) the NVIDIA RTX 2070 generates 52.4 tokens/s and the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 55.1 tokens/s (measured).

Same model, same quant, same test

ModelQuant / testRTX 2070
tok/s
RTX 5060 Ti
tok/s
FasterSources and run details
Llama 3.1 8B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
52.4
llamafile
55.1
llamafile
RTX 5060 Ti +5%LocalScore RTX 2070 · LocalScore RTX 5060 Ti
Llama 3.2 1B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
190
llamafile
170
llamafile
RTX 2070 +12%LocalScore RTX 2070 · LocalScore RTX 5060 Ti

Generation speed in tokens/s, best measured backend for each chip (shown under the number). Backends can differ between the two chips; check them before drawing conclusions. Measured results only, nothing estimated.

Specs

NVIDIA RTX 2070NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti
Memory8 GB16 GB
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s448 GB/s

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