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. 1813 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K context with q8_0 KV.
What fits at 32K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocinante-XL-16B-v1 | Q5_K_S | 16.1B | 10.45 GiB | 3.59 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| GRM-2.6-Plus-0628 | IQ3_M | 27.8B | 12.95 GiB | 1.06 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B | IQ3_M | 27.4B | 12.95 GiB | 1.06 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Tess-4-27B | IQ3_M | 27.8B | 12.95 GiB | 1.06 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| GLM-Z1-Rumination-32B-0414 | IQ2_S | 33.1B | 9.93 GiB | 4.05 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Gemma4-Gutenberg-31B | IQ2_XS | 31.3B | 10.71 GiB | 3.28 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| gemma-4-31B-it | IQ2_XS | 31.3B | 10.71 GiB | 3.28 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Gemma4-Gutenberg-31B-Heretic | IQ2_XS | 31.3B | 10.71 GiB | 3.28 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Equinox-31B | IQ2_XS | 31.3B | 10.71 GiB | 3.28 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| gemma-4-31B-it-SDFT-Heretic-RP | IQ2_XS | 30.7B | 10.71 GiB | 3.28 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen3.5-40B-RoughHouse-Claude-4.6-Opus-Polar-Deckard-Uncensored-Heretic-Thinking | I1-IQ2_S | 39.5B | 12.41 GiB | 1.59 GiB | 14.87 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Olmo-3.1-32B-Instruct | IQ3_XS | 32.2B | 12.45 GiB | 1.51 GiB | 14.86 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Olmo-3.1-32B-Think | IQ3_XS | 32.2B | 12.45 GiB | 1.51 GiB | 14.86 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Olmo-3-32B-Think | IQ3_XS | 32.2B | 12.45 GiB | 1.51 GiB | 14.86 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| GLM-4.7-Flash-hereticMoE | Q3_K_M | 29.9B | 13.17 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 14.85 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 92±37% |
| dolphin-2.9.2-Phi-3-MediumKV unresolved | Q6_K | 14.0B | 10.67 GiB | 3.32 GiB | 14.85 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct | Q6_K | 14.0B | 10.67 GiB | 3.32 GiB | 14.85 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct | I1-Q6_K | 14.0B | 10.67 GiB | 3.32 GiB | 14.85 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OpenAI-gpt-oss-20B-Claude-4.5-Opus-Heretic-UncensoredMoE | I1-Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| gpt-oss-20b-uncensoredMoE | I1-Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20bMoE | I1-Q4_K_S | 21.5B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| Huihui-gpt-oss-20b-BF16-abliterated-v2MoE | I1-Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| metatune-gpt20b-R1.09MoE | I1-Q4_K_S | 21.5B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| gpt-oss-20b-DerestrictedMoE | Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 13.65 GiB | 0.41 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 80±37% |
| gemma-7b | I1-Q6_K | 8.5B | 6.53 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Aurora-Code-1MoE | I1-Q3_K_M | 34.7B | 13.70 GiB | 0.33 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 139±37% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-itMoE | IQ4_XS | 26.5B | 13.23 GiB | 0.82 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 29±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-v1-abliterated | Q8_0 | 12.0B | 12.68 GiB | 1.31 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-v1-sft-v5-abliterated | Q8_0 | 12.0B | 12.68 GiB | 1.31 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| codegeex4-all-9b | IQ2_XS | 9.4B | 3.36 GiB | 10.63 GiB | 14.84 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| glm-4-9b-chat | IQ2_XS | 9.4B | 3.36 GiB | 10.63 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| GLM-4.7-Flash-REAP-23B-A3BMoE | Q4_K_M | 23.0B | 13.14 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 84±37% |
| Laguna-XS-2.1MoE | IQ3_XXS | 33.4B | 13.30 GiB | 0.73 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 115±37% |
| MN-GRAND-23.5B-Gutenberg-UNCENSORED-V2-GLM4.7-Thinking | I1-IQ3_XXS | 23.4B | 8.60 GiB | 5.38 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| reka-flash-3.1 | I1-Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 11.76 GiB | 2.19 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| reka-flash-3 | Q4_K_S | 20.9B | 11.76 GiB | 2.19 GiB | 14.83 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Caller | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Dumpling-Qwen2.5-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OREAL-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| QwQ-32B-Preview-abliterated-linear25 | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| openhands-lm-32b-v0.1 | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-abliterated | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| m1-32b | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| XMainframe-v2-Instruct-32b | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Python-Specialist | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-32b-RP-Ink | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| LongWriter-Zero-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32B-IOI | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-abliterated | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OlympicCoder-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OpenThinker-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| QwQ-32B-ArliAI-RpR-v4 | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| QwQ-32B-abliterated | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-heretic | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| InnoSpark-HPC-RM-32B | I1-IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| OpenThinker2-32B | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
| INTELLECT-2 | IQ2_S | 32.8B | 9.67 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 14.82 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 30±12.9% |
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
| Workload◍ | Median | Middle 50% | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image generation | 15.96 it/s | 10.58–21.15 | 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?
- 1813 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop at 32,768 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Rocinante-XL-16B-v1 at Q5_K_S. 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.