NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VRAM
24 GB
HIGH-END
BANDWIDTH
936
GB/S
MODELS Q4
316/428
74%
7B Q4 SPEED
~107
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q474% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~250
TOK/S
7B
~107
TOK/S
14B
~53
TOK/S
32B
~23
TOK/S
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
24 GB
BANDWIDTH
936 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
35.6 TFLOPS
TDP
350W
MEMORY
GDDR6X
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
CUDA CORES
10,496
TENSOR CORES
328
PCIE
Gen 4 x16
MSRP
$1,499
275
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
316
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
316
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 316
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
8320
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
7488
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
6039
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
5547
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
2925
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
2773
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
2455
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
2235
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
2235
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
2235
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2170
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
2139
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
2080
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
1498
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1498
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1498
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1498
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
1318
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1318
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1248
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1248
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1248
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
1248
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
1070
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
967
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
936
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
832
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
749
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
749
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
749
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
681
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
624
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
624
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
624
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
624
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
576
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
576
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
576
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
576
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
576
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 309024 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE RTX 3090 SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
24 GB GDDR6X
BANDWIDTH
936 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
35.6 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
35.6 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
10,496
TENSOR CORES
328
TDP
350 W
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
MSRP
$1499
▸ AI CAPABILITY
316/ 428 models @ Q4

With 24 GB VRAM and 936 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 34.4B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~107 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE RTX 3090
316 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Nous Capybara 34B34.4B21.5 GB2242.0
Yi-1.5 34B34.4B21.5 GB2245.3
Falcon-H1 34B34B21.3 GB2266.1
CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB2225.4
Nous Hermes 2 34B34B21.3 GB2247.0
Phind CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB2268.1
LLaVA-1.6 Yi 34B34B21.3 GB2247.4
WizardCoder Python 34B34B21.3 GB2273.2
Yi 34B34B21.3 GB2233.4
DeepSeek Coder 33B33B20.7 GB2326.0
Vicuna 33B33B20.7 GB2317.2
LLaMA 1 30B33B20.7 GB2317.8
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B32.8B20.5 GB2346.9
Qwen3 32B32.8B20.5 GB2354.9
Qwen2.5-32B32.5B20.4 GB2354.3
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B32.5B20.4 GB2348.0
QwQ-32B32.5B20.4 GB2343.7
OLMo-2-0325-32B32.2B20.2 GB2359.1
Aya Expanse 32B32B20.0 GB2335.9
Cogito 32B32B20.0 GB2339.4