NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
For running models locally, priced in the US. At 32k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 26.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | GeForce RTX 3090 |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 936 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 44 TFLOPS | 71 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 165 W | 350 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | 26tok/sUD-Q5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | 27tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | 27tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | 135tok/sUD-Q4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | 27tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 78tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | 135tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | 65tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | 26tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | 33tok/sMXFP4 | 108tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | 69tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 12B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 17tok/sQ8_0 | 55tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | 26tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | 26tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3 14B | 12tok/sQ4_K_M | 28tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | 12tok/sQ5_K_M | 29tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | 26tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 104tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 12tok/sQ8_0 | 39tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 63tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 130tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 16tok/sQ6_K | 53tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | offload |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 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 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |