NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 8k context the first runs 28 models fully in memory, the second 28.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce RTX 3090 |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,008 GB/s | 936 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 165 TFLOPS | 71 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 450 W | 350 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 28tok/sUD-Q6_K | 26tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 25tok/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 31B | 27tok/sQ5_K_M | 25tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | 181tok/sUD-Q4_K_M | 168tok/sUD-Q4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 25tok/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | 95tok/sUD-Q6_K | 88tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | 181tok/sQ4_K_M | 168tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | 94tok/sQ5_K_M | 87tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 28tok/sQ6_K |
| gpt-oss 20B | 142tok/sMXFP4 | 132tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | 128tok/sQ5_K_M | 118tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3 32B | 29tok/sQ4_K_M | 27tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 12B | 48tok/sQ8_0 | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 64tok/sQ8_0 | 59tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 28tok/sQ6_K |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 28tok/sQ4_K_M | 26tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 25tok/sQ6_K |
| Ministral 3 14B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 14B | 37tok/sQ8_0 | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 63tok/sQ8_0 | 59tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 63tok/sQ8_0 | 59tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | 36tok/sQ8_0 | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 130tok/sQ8_0 | 121tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 62tok/sQ8_0 | 57tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 59tok/sQ8_0 | 54tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 74tok/sQ8_0 | 69tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 256tok/sQ8_0 | 237tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 82tok/sQ6_K | 76tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.3 70B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |