Hardware · GPU · NVIDIA
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GB of GDDR6X memory at 936 GB/s — enough for models up to ~35B parameters at 4-bit on one card.
- Memory
- 24 GBGDDR6X
- Memory speed
- 936 GB/s#5 of 14 tracked
- Power
- 350 W
- Launch price
- $1,499$62 per GB
What it runs
Largest models without offloading on the Dual RTX 3090 (128 GB DDR5), 8K context.
- VariantLlama 3.1 70B Instruct70.6B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppTight fit~13 tok/s est.
- VariantLlama 3.3 70B Instruct70.6B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppTight fit17.6 tok/s measured
- VariantMixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.146.7B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppRuns well~69 tok/s est.
- VariantQwen2.5 32B Instruct32.8B · Q5_K_M via llama.cppRuns well~24 tok/s est.
- VariantQwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct32.8B · Q8_0 via llama.cppRuns well~16 tok/s est.
- VariantDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B32.8B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppRuns well~28 tok/s est.
- VariantQwen3 30B-A3B30.5B · Q8_0 via llama.cppRuns well~143 tok/s est.
- VariantGemma 3 27B IT27.4B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppRuns well~33 tok/s est.
- VariantGemma 2 27B IT27.2B · Q4_K_M via llama.cppRuns well~34 tok/s est.
- VariantMistral Small 24B Instruct 250123.6B · Q6_K via llama.cppRuns well~29 tok/s est.
Systems using it
- System Dual RTX 3090 (128 GB DDR5)Runs models up to ~73B parameters at 4-bit entirely on the GPU. What runs
Measured performance
Throughput on systems containing this device.
| Model · quantization | System | Runtime | Context | Measurements | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Q4_K_M (LM Studio Community) | Dual RTX 3090 (128 GB DDR5) | llama.cppcuda · b4600 | 4K | 390 tok/s · Prompt processing (512) 17.6 tok/s · Generation (128) | Mutinai illustrative fixtures |
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Specifications
- Vendor
- NVIDIA
- Type
- GPU
- Memory
- 24 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6X
- Bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- GPU-usable share
- —
- Backends
- cuda (NVIDIA GPUs), vulkan (most GPUs (Vulkan))
- TDP
- 350 W
- Released
- 24 Sept 2020
- Launch price
- $1,499
Succeeded by NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Sources & history
Sources
- Mutinai illustrative fixtures (illustrative fixture, 1 record, 13 Sept 2026)