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GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has 16 GB of VRAM at 576 GB/s — about 14.88 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1815 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with f16 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
16 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
576 GB/s
256-bit bus
Tensor FP16
dense
TDP
150 W
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
vision language 159text 1553video 15audio asr 39image 2audio tts 21embedding 26

What fits at 16K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1815 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Apriel-1.6-15b-ThinkerI1-Q6_K14.9B11.03 GiB3.00 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Salience-1.5-FlashMoEI1-IQ3_M31.1B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Huihui-Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-abliteratedMoEI1-IQ3_M31.1B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Gemini-Pro-High-Reasoning-2507-ABLITERATED-UNCENSOREDMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
MiroThinker-v1.0-30BMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-YOYO-V5MoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-Claude-4.5-Sonnet-High-Reasoning-DistillMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Huihui-Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-abliteratedMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Huihui-Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-abliteratedMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-abliterated-eroticMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Huihui-Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-abliteratedMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-RTPurboMoEI1-IQ3_M30.5B12.59 GiB1.50 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB76±37%
Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.4MoEI1-Q3_K_L26.0B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
G4-Moonlight-Dusk-26B-A4B-hereticMoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1-hereticMoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
G4-Moonlight-Dusk-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Chimera-X-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1MoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-StyleTune-V2MoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-StyleTuneMoEI1-Q3_K_L26.5B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
gemma-4-26b-a4b-heretic-styletune-v2-headMoEI1-Q3_K_L25.8B13.17 GiB0.92 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB29±12.9%
Qwen3-Coder-REAP-25B-A3BMoEIQ4_XS24.9B12.57 GiB1.50 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB72±37%
Huihui-GLM-4.7-Flash-abliterated-57BMoEI1-IQ1_M57.3B11.93 GiB2.09 GiB14.86 GiB0.02 GiB65±37%
Rocinante-XL-16B-v1I1-Q5_K_M16.1B10.63 GiB3.38 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB30±12.9%
Le-Chaton-Slim-23BMoEI1-Q4_K_S23.3B12.42 GiB1.63 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB49±37%
Laguna-XS-2.1MoEIQ3_XXS33.4B13.30 GiB0.74 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB114±37%
Llama3.2-30B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-IQ3_XXS30.0B11.09 GiB2.94 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB47±37%
Pantheon-Reasoning-27BQ3_K_S27.8B12.98 GiB1.00 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3.5-27BQ3_K_S27.8B12.98 GiB1.00 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB30±12.9%
OpenAI-gpt-oss-20B-Claude-4.5-Opus-Heretic-UncensoredMoEI1-Q4_K_S20.9B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
gpt-oss-20b-uncensoredMoEI1-Q4_K_S20.9B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
gpt-oss-safeguard-20bMoEI1-Q4_K_S21.5B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
Huihui-gpt-oss-20b-BF16-abliterated-v2MoEI1-Q4_K_S20.9B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
metatune-gpt20b-R1.09MoEI1-Q4_K_S21.5B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
gpt-oss-20b-DerestrictedMoEQ4_K_S20.9B13.65 GiB0.39 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB81±37%
Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ2_M39.5B12.46 GiB1.50 GiB14.82 GiB0.06 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3-42B-A3B-2507-Thinking-Abliterated-uncensored-TOTAL-RECALL-v2-Medium-MASTER-CODERMoEI1-IQ2_S42.4B11.93 GiB2.09 GiB14.82 GiB0.06 GiB65±37%
Aurora-Code-1MoEI1-Q3_K_M34.7B13.70 GiB0.31 GiB14.82 GiB0.06 GiB141±37%
codegeex4-all-9bIQ3_XXS9.4B3.97 GiB10.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-HERETIC-UncensoredMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.11 GiB0.92 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
Llama-3.2-8X3B-MOE-Dark-Champion-Instruct-uncensored-abliterated-18.4BMoEQ5_K_M18.4B12.25 GiB1.75 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB44±37%
GRM-2.6-Plus-0628IQ3_M27.8B12.95 GiB1.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27BIQ3_M27.4B12.95 GiB1.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
Tess-4-27BIQ3_M27.8B12.95 GiB1.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
glm-4-9b-chatIQ3_XXS9.4B3.97 GiB10.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
Wan2.2-S2V-14BQ5_K_M16.3B13.97 GiB0.00 GiB14.81 GiB0.07 GiB30±12.9%
Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliteratedMoEIQ4_XS26.5B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoEIQ4_XS25.8B13.10 GiB0.92 GiB14.80 GiB0.08 GiB30±12.9%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Measured on this card

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation15.96 it/s10.5821.15312
Benchmarked· n=312

Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop run?
1815 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop at 16,384 context with f16 KV cache, the largest being Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker at I1-Q6_K. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop actually have?
Its nameplate is 16 GB, but about 14.88 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 576 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.