Optimal local AI on 12 GB VRAM?

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This post mentions a couple 9b models that run under 10GB.

B70 or R9700? (help decide)

I have wonderful luck with coding adventures with this model(s) Jackrong/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-GGUF · Hugging Face bigatuna/Qwen3.5-9b-Sushi-Coder-RL-GGUF · Hugging Face BrainboxAI/code-il-E4B · Hugging Face These all run on my 16GB card, most under 10GB in use, but I have 64k context limits on coding and subagent…