NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

24 GB · 936 GB/s · 350 W

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory with 936 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text. At 32k context it runs 64 of the 128 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 27B at Q8_0, at about 19 tok/s (estimated). The best new price for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 in the US is $1,698 at Amazon; used, it starts at $1,549 (asking price).

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

Prices

Every retailer we track in the US, cheapest first. Buy links may earn us a commission.

RetailerConditionPriceStockCheckedBuy
eBayNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition FE 24GB GDDR6X Testedused, asking price$1,549In stock2 h agoBuy
eBayZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X Trinity OC Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,599In stock2 h agoBuy
eBayEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24GB GDDR6X Graphics Card- Dust/Corrosionused, asking price$1,599In stock5 h agoBuy
eBayNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition 24GB GDDR6 Graphics Card- Runs Hotused, asking price$1,599In stock5 h agoBuy
eBayDell NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X Graphics Cardused, asking price$1,600In stock5 h agoBuy
eBayEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING 24GB GDDR6X 24G-P5-3987-KRused, asking price$1,600In stock5 h agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming OC 24G Graphics CardNew$1,698In stock36 min agoBuy
AmazonPNY GeForce RTX 3090 24GB XLR8 Gaming Revel Epic-X RGB Triple Fan Graphics CardNew$1,700In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 EAGLE OC 24G Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,700In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Torx…New$1,700In stock3 h agoBuy
AmazonZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity OC 24GB GDDR6X 384-bit 19.5 Gbps PCIE…refurbished$1,730In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Eagle OC 24G Graphics CardNew$1,777In stock23 min agoBuy
Amazonmsi Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Tri-Frozr 2…New$1,784In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGigabyte 24GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo GDDR6X Graphics Card Model…refurbished$1,795In stock23 min agoBuy
eBayUsed GeForce RTX 3090 on eBayused, asking price$1,799In stock14 min agoBuy
AmazonnVidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Graphics CardNew$1,799In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3090 Master 24GNew$1,800In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonEVGA 24G-P5-3975-KR GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra Gamingrefurbished$1,850In stock36 min agoBuy
AmazonGigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 GAMING OC 24G Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,880In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming Graphics Card- PCIe 4.0refurbished$1,900In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonMSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Torx Fan 3…refurbished$1,900In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonMSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Tri-Frozr 2…refurbished$1,900In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonASUS ROG Strix NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 White OC Edition Gaming Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,900In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonPNY 2021 GeForce RTX 3090 24GB XLR8 Gaming Uprising EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan…refurbished$1,900In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,950In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Vision OC 24G Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,950In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonPNY GeForce RTX 3090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan Graphics Cardrefurbished$1,950In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra GamingNew$1,950In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 OC Edition 24GB GDDR6X Gaming Graphics Card…refurbished$1,950In stock23 min agoBuy
eBay✅SEALED EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra ✅🔥Fast Shipping! 🔥 24G-P5-3987-KR ✅New$1,999In stock2 h agoBuy
AmazonASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 OC Edition Graphics Card- PCIe 4.0refurbished$2,100In stock23 min agoBuy
eBayMSI Ventus Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Torx Fan 3New$2,150In stock5 h agoBuy
eBayEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Graphics CardNew$2,250In stock5 h agoBuy
eBay✅NEW ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X 🔥 SEALED *IN HAND FAST 2DAY SHIP🚐New$2,399In stock2 h agoBuy
AmazonEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra GamingNew$2,495In stock23 min agoBuy
eBayASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 NON LHR OC 24GB GPU FAST/FREE SHIPPING✅🚚💨New$2,500In stock2 h agoBuy
eBayNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition 24GB GDDR6 Graphics Card NON-LHRNew$2,500+ $100 deliveryIn stock2 h agoBuy
AmazonGigabyte 24GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo GDDR6X Graphics Card Model…New$2,795In stock36 min agoBuy
Amazonmsi Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP 1875 MHz Ampere…New$2,799In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Vision OC 24G Graphics CardNew$2,799In stock23 min agoBuy
AmazonASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 White OC Edition Gaming Graphics CardNew$2,799In stock23 min agoBuy
eBayMSI GEFORCE RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G OC GPU GRAPHICS CARD 912-V388-055-RETAILNew$2,895In stock5 h agoBuy
eBayEVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra 24GB GDDR6X Graphics CardNew$1,600Out of stock2 h agoBuy
eBayZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity 24GB GDDR6X Graphics CardNew$2,000+ $20 deliveryOut of stock5 h agoBuy
eBayGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO 24GB GDDR6X Graphics CardNew$2,199Out of stock5 h agoBuy

Used on eBay: median asking price $1,799, most between $1,699 and $2,000 (117 listings, 2026-10-30). Used price history

Price history

Lowest price shown each day over the last 90 days.

$1,357$1,569$1,7822026-10-142026-10-30
Lowest new priceLowest used asking price

What two of them run

Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @32kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits30.5 GB256k

19tok/sest.

515 tok/schat, long documents
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits41.1 GB224k256k with q8 cache

81tok/sest.

1208 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits30.1 GB256k

19tok/sest.

515 tok/schat, long documents
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits35.0 GB172k256k with q8 cache

16tok/sest.

459 tok/schat
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits39.4 GB296k471k with q8 cache

111tok/sest.

1343 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.3 GB256k

91tok/sest.

3679 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits30.1 GB256k

19tok/sest.

515 tok/schat, long documents
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits27.1 GB256k

69tok/sest.

3273 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.3 GB256k

91tok/sest.

3679 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits32.6 GB198k

49tok/sest.

1921 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB137k251k with q8 cache

19tok/sest.

544 tok/schat
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits34.1 GB256k

97tok/sest.

4198 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits39.3 GB588k802k with q8 cache

125tok/sest.

3171 tok/schat, coding, long documents
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits13.3 GB128k

108tok/sest.

2747 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits34.5 GB155k256k with q8 cache

54tok/sest.

1692 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits41.7 GB40k

13tok/sest.

320 tok/schat
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits13.9 GB256k

43tok/sest.

1195 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits11.2 GB256k

55tok/sest.

1489 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB128k

19tok/sest.

544 tok/schat
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits30.9 GB128k

18tok/sest.

547 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits41.7 GB51k95k with q8 cache

13tok/sest.

367 tok/schat
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits19.7 GB199k256k with q8 cache

29tok/sest.

827 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits20.9 GB40k

28tok/sest.

744 tok/schat, coding, long documents
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits13.9 GB128k

43tok/sest.

1227 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits13.9 GB40k

43tok/sest.

1227 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits22.0 GB16k

26tok/sest.

748 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits6.5 GB256k

104tok/sest.

2786 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits13.9 GB256k

43tok/sest.

1185 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits15.0 GB128k

39tok/sest.

1128 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits9.8 GB128k

63tok/sest.

1871 tok/schat, coding, long documents
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits11.2 GB125k

130tok/sest.

6119 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits11.4 GB128k

53tok/sest.

1296 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen2.5 0.5B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.2 GB32k

622tok/sest.

13327 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3.5 0.8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.4 GB256k

471tok/sest.

12519 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.5 2B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits3.0 GB256k

313tok/sest.

5968 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM3 1.7B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits3.4 GB256k

257tok/sest.

7429 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits3.9 GB128k

205tok/sest.

5014 tok/schat, coding, long documents
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits5.1 GB128k

142tok/sest.

2994 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Spark X2.5 4B

XHToken

mlx-4bitfits5.3 GB1024k

135tok/sest.

2940 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits5.8 GB128k

119tok/sest.

3391 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 VL 3B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits5.8 GB32k

119tok/sest.

3110 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking

JetBrains

Q8_0fits13.8 GB128k

110tok/sest.

4418 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
FrogNano 4B 2609

Microsoft

Q8_0fits6.6 GB256k

101tok/sest.

2786 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits7.2 GB128k

92tok/sest.

2173 tok/schat, coding, long documents
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits7.4 GB128k

88tok/sest.

2277 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506

Moonshot AI

Q8_0fits18.0 GB128k

85tok/sest.

3320 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits18.8 GB128k

81tok/sest.

2794 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits7.9 GB256k

81tok/sest.

2177 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits27.5 GB128k

72tok/sest.

3410 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4 9B 0414

Z.ai

mlx-5bitfits10.2 GB32k

61tok/sest.

1082 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits10.6 GB128k

58tok/sest.

1465 tok/schat, coding, long documents
GLM 4.6V Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits11.9 GB128k

51tok/sest.

1020 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits13.2 GB128k

45tok/sest.

1296 tok/schat, coding, long documents
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits13.5 GB64k

44tok/sest.

1020 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits13.9 GB256k

43tok/sest.

1185 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits19.7 GB199k256k with q8 cache

29tok/sest.

827 tok/schat, coding, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits21.9 GB128k

26tok/sest.

700 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED

OBLITERATUS

mlx-4bitfits22.7 GB256k

25tok/sest.

515 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB128k

19tok/sest.

552 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB40k

19tok/sest.

552 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB40k

19tok/sest.

552 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.6 GB128k

19tok/sest.

544 tok/schat
Muse Glimmer 30B

meta-models

Q8_0fits31.9 GB128k

18tok/sest.

497 tok/schat, long documents
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits38.3 GB65k120k with q8 cache

15tok/sest.

422 tok/schat
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Moffload47.3 GB14k23k with q8 cache

97tok/sest.

2893 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload52.6 GB–

29tok/sest.

1139 tok/schat, coding, long documents
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Moffload60.9 GB–

24tok/sest.

1675 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Koffload49.2 GB18k34k with q8 cache

20tok/sest.

484 tok/schat
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Moffload47.3 GB15k24k with q8 cache

118tok/sest.

3443 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Moffload50.9 GB19k35k with q8 cache

6tok/sest.

165 tok/s–
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Moffload66.3 GB–

6tok/sest.

399 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Moffload50.9 GB19k35k with q8 cache

6tok/sest.

165 tok/s–
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Moffload72.6 GB–

5tok/sest.

381 tok/s–
Kimi Dev 72B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Koffload71.2 GB–

2tok/sest.

134 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run94.2 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run103.0 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run75.6 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run79.2 GB––––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.1 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.6 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Zero

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run381.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run381.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run381.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run149.6 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run158.4 GB––––
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run82.0 GB––––
GLM 4.5

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run214.4 GB––––
GLM 4.6

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run213.6 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run214.4 GB––––
GLM 5

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run386.4 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run424.0 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run437.9 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run750.4 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run581.6 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run582.0 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run582.0 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run582.0 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run137.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run137.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run124.3 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run244.7 GB––––
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run82.0 GB––––

Specifications

From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.

GPU
GeForce RTX 3090
Memory
24 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus
384-bit
Memory bandwidth
936 GB/s
FP16 compute
71 TFLOPS
Software
CUDA
Board power
350 W
PCIe generation
Gen 4
PCIe lanes
x16

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Questions

How much memory does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 have for AI models?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory with 936 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text.
What is the best model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 can run locally?
Qwen 3.8 27B (Q8_0) fits fully in its memory at 32k context and generates at about 19 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 64 of the 128 models we track fit at that context.
Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 run DeepSeek V4 Flash?
No: even at UD-Q2_K_XL, DeepSeek V4 Flash needs about 94 GB at 32k context, more than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and system RAM can hold.
How much does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 cost in the US?
The best new price for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 in the US is $1,698 at Amazon; used, it starts at $1,549 (asking price).

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