I love mistral, but that model is... not the best. Maybe try out Gemma 4 e4b, it's a similar size to Mistral 7B, and should run great on your 4070 ("E4B" is slightly misleading naming).
7b mistral is quite outdated. On a 12gb 4070 you can run qwen 3.5 9b q4km or qwen 3.6 35b, the latter will be a lot smarter but also a lot slower due to ram offload.
Try both in lm studio, they really are surprisingly capable
Gemma 4 26B-A4B might be interesting to try on your machine. The latest optimizations make MoE models work pretty nicely on setups like that with a decent GPU and lots of slowish RAM. I have a 16gb GPU and 64gb of 3200mhz DDR4 and get 15-20 tokens/sec out of that model with zero finagling or tweaking. I’ve been very impressed by it, even having run just about every other open weight model that would fit on my machine over the last few years.
Yeah, TheBloke era of local LLMs were good times. TBF Unsloth are doing a fantastic job of publishing quants of the major models quickly - they just don't have nearly the volume of "weird" models as TheBloke did.
What do you use it for? I'm still trying to use agents, I barely use copilot, only at work when I have to.
I didn't want to get personal with an LLM unless it was local so that's why I was setting this up but yeah. So far just research is what I was looking at.