Can I Run Yi 1.5 Family on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

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Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 12 lipca 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.2 GB of headroom running Yi 1.5 34B Chat at Q4_K_M (20.769 GB, ~25 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Specs

VRAM24 GB
Memory Bandwidth936 GB/s

Yi 1.5 34B Chat on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 24 GB?Max context
F1670.6 GB✗ No
Q8_038.4 GB✗ No
Q6_K30 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M26.2 GB✗ No
Q4_K_M22.6 GB✓ Yes8K
Q3_K_M16.5 GB✓ Yes16K
Q2_K13.1 GB✓ Yes16K

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.

Yi 1.5 Family Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Yi 1.5 34B ChatQ4_K_M · 20.769 GB · ~25 tok/s (est.)
Yi 1.5 9B ChatQ4_K_M · 5.3311125 GB · ~83 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Can I run Yi 1.5 Family on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.2 GB of headroom running Yi 1.5 34B Chat at Q4_K_M (20.769 GB, ~25 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

What's the best Yi 1.5 Family size for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

Yi 1.5 34B Chat at Q4_K_M quantization (20.769 GB), estimated ~25 tokens/sec, up to 8K context.

Every Yi 1.5 Family size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Yi 1.5 34B Chat20.8 GBRuns~25 tok/s
Yi 1.5 9B Chat5.3 GBRuns~83 tok/s

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