I have a 1070ti 6gb so right there with you. Its important to note though that our use cases and expectations may differ. Also I’m using kobold.cpp with cublas partial offloading to run the models

Qwen 14B R1 distill q6km for testing out CoT, science/math related questions, internet search RAG, and best token speed to performance ratio

Arliai Mistral NeMo 12B finetune q4km for smut and creative writing.

Beepo 22b Mistral Small 2407 uncensored fine tune model that will tell me all the forbidden no-no knowledge.

Mistral Small 3 2501 for the best generally performing model that can fit on the card with bearable token speed and context window.

Minicpm for multimodal vision for document scanning.