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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Mobile Ada flagship. 16GB VRAM in a laptop. Premium gaming and AI laptop default.

Released 2023

Overview

Mobile Ada flagship. 16GB VRAM in a laptop. Premium gaming and AI laptop default.

Specs

VRAM16 GB
Power draw175 W
Released2023
Backends
CUDA
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile with usable context.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama
Qwen 3 8B
8B · qwen
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
3B · llama
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B · qwen
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
7B · deepseek
Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B
8B · hermes
Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
4B · gemma
Qwen 3 4B
4B · qwen
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Hardware worth comparing

Same VRAM tier and the one step above and below — so you can frame the buying decision against real options.

Same VRAM tier
Cards in the same memory band
Step down
Less VRAM — cheaper, more constrained
No verdicted hardware in the next tier down yet.

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile run?

With 16GB VRAM, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile runs models up to 14B in 4-bit, or 7B at higher quantizations. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

Reviewed by RunLocalAI Editorial. See our editorial policy for how we research and verify hardware specifications.