What can a RTX 3090 24GB run?
24GB · 936 GB/s · 350W · $950
The people's 24 GB card: the single most-run GPU for 32B Q4 in the entire homelab community.
Runs great25
Comfortable headroom — daily-driver territory.
| Model | Quant | Est. speed | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek moe 16b chat | FP16 | Infinity tok/s | — |
| qwen2 7b instruct | FP16 | Infinity tok/s | — |
| Qwen3-0.6B | FP16 | 467 tok/s | 33k |
| GPT-OSS-20B | Q5_K_M | 226 tok/s | 48k |
| Gemma-3n-E4B | FP16 | 207 tok/s | 131k |
| SmolLM2-1.7B | FP16 | 170 tok/s | 8k |
| Llama-3.2-3B | FP16 | 90 tok/s | 131k |
| Phi-4-mini | FP16 | 75 tok/s | 131k |
| Gemma-3-4B | FP16 | 75 tok/s | 131k |
| Qwen3-4B | FP16 | 74 tok/s | 33k |
| Gemma-3-12B | Q8_0 | 42 tok/s | 63k |
| Qwen3-14B | Q6_K | 42 tok/s | 33k |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct | FP16 | 40 tok/s | 33k |
| Mistral-Small-24B | Q4_K_M | 40 tok/s | 48k |
| Qwen3.8 | MLX 4-bit | 38 tok/s | 44k |
| Qwen3.8 27B | MLX 4-bit | 38 tok/s | 44k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | FP16 | 38 tok/s | 59k |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7B | FP16 | 38 tok/s | 59k |
| Gemma-3-27B | MLX 4-bit | 38 tok/s | 43k |
| qwen35 27B | MLX 4-bit | 38 tok/s | 42k |
| Phi-4-14B | Q8_0 | 37 tok/s | 16k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | Q8_0 | 37 tok/s | 46k |
| Codestral-22B | Q5_K_M | 37 tok/s | 33k |
| Llama-3.1-8B | FP16 | 36 tok/s | 51k |
| Qwen3-8B | FP16 | 36 tok/s | 33k |
Tight squeeze5
It fits, but close the browser tabs and mind the context.
| Model | Quant | Est. speed | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | Q4_K_M | 290 tok/s | 21k |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B | Q4_K_M | 290 tok/s | 21k |
| Qwen3-32B | Q4_K_M | 29 tok/s | 13k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | Q4_K_M | 29 tok/s | 12k |
| GLM-4-32B | Q4_K_M | 29 tok/s | 12k |
Measured on this card0
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