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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. 1863 of 2118 indexed models fit at 4K context with q8_0 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
text 1597vision language 163video 15image 2audio asr 39embedding 26audio tts 21

What fits at 4K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1863 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
QwQ-32B-Preview-abliterated-linear25I1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
openhands-lm-32b-v0.1I1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-abliteratedI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
m1-32bI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
XMainframe-v2-Instruct-32bI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Python-SpecialistI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-32b-RP-InkI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32BIQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-hereticI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
InnoSpark-HPC-RM-32BI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-UncensoredI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.45 GiB0.53 GiB14.88 GiB0.00 GiB30±12.9%
cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32BI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
QwQ-32B-Snowdrop-v0I1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-UncensoredI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
RoguePlanet-DeepSeek-R1-Qwen-32B-RPI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-ultra-uncensored-hereticI1-IQ3_S33.4B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
Huihui-Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-IQ3_S33.4B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
ColorGUI-32BI1-IQ3_S33.4B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3-32B-UncensoredI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3-32B-abliteratedI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
AReaL-boba-2-32BI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
Assistant_Pepe_32BI1-IQ3_S32.8B13.44 GiB0.53 GiB14.87 GiB0.01 GiB30±12.9%
ALIA-40b-fc-2606I1-IQ2_M40.4B13.54 GiB0.40 GiB14.86 GiB0.02 GiB30±12.9%
ALIA-40b-instruct-2606I1-IQ2_M40.4B13.54 GiB0.40 GiB14.86 GiB0.02 GiB30±12.9%
Llama-3.1-8BQ4_K_M8.0B13.75 GiB0.27 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB30±12.9%
Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1MQ6_K9.4B13.95 GiB0.07 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB30±12.9%
Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-Q6_K18.0B13.81 GiB0.23 GiB14.85 GiB0.03 GiB84±37%
Qwen3.5-21B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q5_K_M21.3B13.88 GiB0.10 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3.6-21B-IQ-Ultra-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q5_K_M21.3B13.88 GiB0.10 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB30±12.9%
Llama3.2-30B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-Q3_K_M30.0B13.64 GiB0.39 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB81±37%
Gemma-The-Writer-N-Restless-Quill-10B-UncensoredQ2_K10.0B13.24 GiB0.76 GiB14.84 GiB0.04 GiB30±12.9%
CallerQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Dumpling-Qwen2.5-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OREAL-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Baichuan-M2-32B-abliteratedQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
INTELLECT-2Q3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
LongWriter-Zero-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32B-IOIQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-abliteratedQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OlympicCoder-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OpenThinker-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
QwQ-32B-ArliAI-RpR-v4Q3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-InstructQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
QwQ-32B-abliteratedQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
OpenThinker2-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-32B-InstructQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
QwQ-32B-PreviewQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-abliteratedQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
TinyR1-32B-PreviewQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
deepseek-r1-qwen-2.5-32B-ablatedQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Rombos-LLM-V2.5-Qwen-32bQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
QwQ-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-32B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.3Q3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-Blunt-UncensoredQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32BQ3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen2.5-VL-32B-InstructQ3_K_S33.5B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2Q3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.1Q3_K_S32.8B13.40 GiB0.53 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 GiB30±12.9%
Qwen3-14B-GPT-5.2-High-Reasoning-DistillQ3_K_M14.8B13.64 GiB0.33 GiB14.83 GiB0.05 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?
1863 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop at 4,096 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being QwQ-32B-Preview-abliterated-linear25 at I1-IQ3_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.