What can Razer Blade 16 (2025, RTX 5090 Mobile) run for agents?

Build: Razer Blade 16 (2025, RTX 5090 Mobile 24GB)

Memory: 24 GB VRAM + 64 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)

Runs comfortably
67 models

Ranked by fit for agents use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.

#1Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B
8B
hermes
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 14.7 GBHeadroom: 9.3 GB
ollama run hermes3:8b
73
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#2Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 19.8 GBHeadroom: 4.2 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:14b
64
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
10.50 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.53 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#3Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B
24B
dolphin
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 19.5 GBHeadroom: 4.5 GB
ollama run dolphin-mistral:24b
43
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.00 GB
KV cache
3.00 GB
Activations
0.70 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#4Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 13.2 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:7b
83
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.10 GB
KV cache
0.47 GB
Activations
0.41 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 13.0 GB
128
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.90 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#6Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
7B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.7 GBHeadroom: 13.3 GB
ollama run mistral:7b
128
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.10 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#7Mistral Small 3 24B
24B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 19.5 GBHeadroom: 4.5 GB
ollama run mistral-small:24b
43
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.00 GB
KV cache
3.00 GB
Activations
0.70 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#8Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: FP16Context: 8,192VRAM: 19.8 GBHeadroom: 4.2 GB
ollama run llama3.1:8b
39
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
16.10 GB
KV cache
1.07 GB
Activations
0.81 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#9Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.6 GBHeadroom: 6.4 GB
ollama run qwen3:14b
73
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#10Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.6 GBHeadroom: 6.4 GB
73
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#11Qwen 2.5-VL 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GB
146
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
#12Qwen 2.5 Math 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 8.2 GBHeadroom: 15.8 GB
146
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

Runs with tradeoffs
35 models

Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.

Qwen3.8 27B
27B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 22.5 GBHeadroom: 1.5 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.5 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3.8:27b
38
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
16.50 GB
KV cache
3.38 GB
Activations
0.83 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 23.9 GBHeadroom: 0.1 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
32
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.00 GB
KV cache
2.15 GB
Activations
0.96 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 50.4 GBHeadroom: 12.0 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~52% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen3:30b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
32.00 GB
KV cache
15.00 GB
Activations
1.61 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
47B
mixtral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 54.7 GBHeadroom: 7.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~56% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run mixtral:8x7b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
28.00 GB
KV cache
23.50 GB
Activations
1.41 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 3 32B
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 53.5 GBHeadroom: 8.9 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~55% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen3:32b
1
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
34.00 GB
KV cache
16.00 GB
Activations
1.71 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 53.5 GBHeadroom: 8.9 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~55% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen2.5:32b
1
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
34.00 GB
KV cache
16.00 GB
Activations
1.71 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
70B
deepseek
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 52.6 GBHeadroom: 9.8 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run deepseek-r1:70b
1
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
40.00 GB
KV cache
8.75 GB
Activations
2.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
70B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 52.6 GBHeadroom: 9.8 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run llama3.1:70b
1
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
40.00 GB
KV cache
8.75 GB
Activations
2.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB

What if you upgraded?

Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.

+32 GB system RAM

Check the current price

Adds 32 GB to your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.

Unlocks: 46 new comfortable, 39 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 1.7B
  • • Gemma 3 270M

Upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Launch MSRP $1,999 (2025). Check the current price.

32 GB VRAM (vs your 24 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~? GB/s to ~1792 GB/s.

Unlocks: 63 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 32B

Add a second Razer Blade 16 (2025, RTX 5090 Mobile)

Launch MSRP $4,499 (2025). Check the current price.

Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.

Unlocks: 69 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 32B

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Won't run
top 5 popular models

Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)
1600B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (38 GB) combined.

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Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (38 GB) combined.

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DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (38 GB) combined.

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Llama 4 Scout
109B
llama
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (38 GB) combined.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B MoE)
284B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (38 GB) combined.

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