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NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB)

The NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) features 32 GB of dedicated VRAM and 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth, supporting CUDA and TensorRT-LLM runtimes for full-precision and quantized inference.

Memory

32 GB

Usable Memory Ceiling

32 GB

Bandwidth

1792 GB/s

Max Inference Class

32B Models (Q4)

TDP

575W

VRAM Scaling by Context Length

Estimated memory requirements as context length increases. Curves crossing above the reference line indicate Out of Memory (OOM).

DeepSeek-R1 7B (7B)Yi-9B (9B)Muse Glimmer 30B (30B)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (80B (79B active))

Precision:

Best Models to Run on NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB)

Inference throughput, memory compatibility, and generation speeds for open-weights LLMs on NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB).

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Context:

KV Cache:

GPUs:

RankModelParametersPrecisionTPS (Approx.)TTFTCan Run

#36

Qwen 3.8 27B

27B

INT4
Q8

78 tok/s

46 tok/s

~723 ms

~792 ms

#80

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B

36B (4B active)

INT4

214 tok/s

~147 ms

#86

Qwen3.5-27B

27B

INT4
Q8

78 tok/s

46 tok/s

~723 ms

~792 ms

#93

Sarvam-30B

32B (2.4B active)

INT4

245 tok/s

~104 ms

#99

Muse Glimmer 30B

30B

INT4
Q8

72 tok/s

39 tok/s

~801 ms

~948 ms

#102

Phi-4 Reasoning Plus

14B

INT4
Q8
FP16

98 tok/s

70 tok/s

38 tok/s

~386 ms

~390 ms

~466 ms

#103

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

232 tok/s

~121 ms

#105

MiMo V2 Flash

15B (309B active)

INT4
Q8

9 tok/s

5 tok/s

~7.8s

~7.9s

#110

Gemma 4 26B A4B

25.2B (3.8B active)

INT4
Q8

222 tok/s

169 tok/s

~135 ms

~147 ms

#120

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

232 tok/s

~121 ms

#121

Qwen3.5-9B

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

163 tok/s

113 tok/s

68 tok/s

~251 ms

~254 ms

~260 ms

#127

K2 Horizon 7B

7B

INT4
Q8
FP16

186 tok/s

134 tok/s

83 tok/s

~198 ms

~200 ms

~205 ms

#130

Gemma 4 12B

11.95B

INT4
Q8
FP16

108 tok/s

79 tok/s

46 tok/s

~331 ms

~335 ms

~371 ms

#136

Qwen3.5-4B

4B

INT4
Q8
FP16

234 tok/s

183 tok/s

124 tok/s

~119 ms

~120 ms

~123 ms

#139

GPT-OSS 20B

21B (3.6B active)

INT4
Q8

139 tok/s

118 tok/s

~129 ms

~141 ms

#140

GLM-4V

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

129 tok/s

97 tok/s

62 tok/s

~253 ms

~255 ms

~261 ms

#145

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B

3.5B (30B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

69 tok/s

43 tok/s

23 tok/s

~777 ms

~786 ms

~805 ms

#150

Qwen3-30B-A3B

30B (3B active)

INT4
Q8

234 tok/s

175 tok/s

~119 ms

~139 ms

#152

Granite 4.2 8B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

174 tok/s

123 tok/s

75 tok/s

~224 ms

~227 ms

~232 ms

#157

Gemma 4 E4B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

174 tok/s

123 tok/s

75 tok/s

~224 ms

~227 ms

~232 ms

Inference Capacity

Maximum model parameter class runnable by weight precision.

Context:

4-bit

Q4

32B Models

8-bit

Q8

14B Models

16-bit

FP16

14B Models

Fine-Tuning Capacity

Hardware capacity for local training and adapter fine-tuning.

Context Length:

QLoRA

4-bit

32B Models

LoRA

16-bit

14B Models

Full Parameter Training

3B Models

Workload Recommendations

Guidance for optimal precision and operational ceilings on NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB).

Inference Sweet Spot

Optimized for 14B models at uncompressed or Q8 precision, and 32B models at Q4 with up to 32k context.

Bandwidth & Speed Profile

With 1792 GB/s aggregate bandwidth, batch size 1 inference operates in a memory-bandwidth bound regime. Generates approximately 398 tok/s on an 8B Q4 model and 47 tok/s on a 70B Q4 model.

Frequently Asked Questions