Can I Run Qwen 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated April 28, 2025

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~4.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 3 32B at Q4_K_M (19.5 GB, ~48 tok/s (est.)).

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Specs

VRAM	24 GB
Memory Bandwidth	936 GB/s

Qwen 3 Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Qwen 3 32B	Q4_K_M · 19.5 GB · ~48 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3 14B	Q4_K_M · 9.5 GB · ~99 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE)	Q4_K_M · 8 GB · ~400 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3 8B	Q4_K_M · 5.5 GB · ~170 tok/s (est.)

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 · MSRP

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RTX 4090 (24 GB) class

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