GeForce RTX 3090: 24GB VRAM — What Local LLMs Can It Run?
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The GeForce RTX 3090 has 24GB of GDDR6X memory with 936 GB/s of bandwidth. No used-price data yet. At Q4 quantization it runs models up to 32B parameters at roughly 33 tokens/s.
Full GeForce RTX 3090 specifications
What LLMs can the GeForce RTX 3090 run?
One reference model per family (its main version)| Model | Q4_K_M | Q8_0 | FP16 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fits | Speed t/s | Context | Fits | Speed t/s | Context | Fits | Speed t/s | Context | |
| DeepSeekDeepSeek R1 Qwen3 8B | ✓ | 113.9 | 128K | ✓ | 67.1 | 32K | ✓ | 37.5 | 32K |
| GemmaGemma 4 31B | ✗ | — | — | ✗ | — | — | ✗ | — | — |
| GLMGLM 4.7 Flash | ✓ | 144.4 | 32K | Offload | 22.1 | — | Offload | 12.3 | — |
| gpt-ossgpt-oss 20B | ✓ | 134.8 | 128K | ✓ | 98.9 | 8K | Offload | 9.2 | — |
| KimiKimi Linear 48B A3B | Offload | 44.1 | — | Offload | 25.9 | — | Offload | 14.4 | — |
| LlamaLlama 3.1 8B | ✓ | 117 | 128K | ✓ | 68.7 | 32K | ✓ | 38.4 | 32K |
| MistralMistral 7B v0.3 | ✓ | 127.1 | 32K | ✓ | 75.2 | 32K | ✓ | 42.2 | 32K |
| QwenQwen3 8B | ✓ | 113.9 | 32K | ✓ | 67.1 | 32K | ✓ | 37.5 | 32K |
Fits when weights + KV cache + runtime overhead is at or below usable memory, single card. "Offload" on MoE models means it runs with expert weights in system RAM (only attention layers and KV cache stay in VRAM); that speed assumes 70 GB/s RAM bandwidth. The context column is the largest tier that fits.
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FAQ
How much VRAM does the GeForce RTX 3090 have?
The GeForce RTX 3090 has 24GB of GDDR6X memory with 936 GB/s of bandwidth.
Can the GeForce RTX 3090 run a 70B model?
Not on a single card. At Q4_K_M with an 8K context a 70B dense model needs about 43GB, more than the GeForce RTX 3090's 24GB.
How much does a used GeForce RTX 3090 cost?
No used-price data yet; it will appear here once the feed is live.