Can I Run Qwen 3.5 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

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

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 24 lutego 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~7.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 3.5 27B at Q4_K_M (16.5 GB, ~57 tok/s (est.)).

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Sprawdź cenę na Amazon — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Specs

VRAM	24 GB
Memory Bandwidth	936 GB/s

Qwen 3.5 27B on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: VRAM by quantization

Quant	VRAM needed	Fits 24 GB?	Max context
F16	63.4 GB	✗ No	—
Q8_0	38.1 GB	✗ No	—
Q6_K	31.6 GB	✗ No	—
Q5_K_M	28.6 GB	✗ No	—
Q4_K_M	25.7 GB	✗ No	—
Q3_K_M	20.9 GB	✓ Yes	4K
Q2_K	18.3 GB	✓ Yes	4K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 24 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 3.5 Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Qwen 3.5 27B	Q4_K_M · 16.5 GB · ~57 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 9B	Q4_K_M · 6.6 GB · ~142 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 4B	Q4_K_M · 3.4 GB · ~275 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 2B	Q4_K_M · 2.7 GB · ~347 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 0.8B	Q4_K_M · 1 GB · ~400 tok/s (est.)

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from $0.34/hr

RTX 4090 (24 GB) class

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