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RUNLOCALAI · v38
Will it run? / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti / long context

What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti run for long context?

Build: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)

Memory: 24 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)
AnyChatCodingAgentsReasoningVisionLong contextCreative

Runs comfortably
67 models

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

#1Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct
3.8B
phi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 16.1 GBHeadroom: 7.9 GB
ollama run phi3.5:3.8b
153
tok/s
E
Weights
4.04 GB
KV cache
1.90 GB
Activations
8.39 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#2Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 16.5 GBHeadroom: 7.5 GB
ollama run gemma4:e4b
145
tok/s
E
Weights
4.25 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
8.40 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#3Falcon Mamba 7B
7B
falcon
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB
146
tok/s
E
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
8.40 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#4Codestral Mamba 7B
7B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB
146
tok/s
E
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
8.40 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#5Ministral 8B Instruct
8B
mistral
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 19.1 GBHeadroom: 4.9 GB
128
tok/s
E
Weights
4.83 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
8.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#6Ministral 3B Instruct
3B
mistral
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 13.4 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GB
341
tok/s
E
Weights
1.81 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
8.28 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#7Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 18.3 GBHeadroom: 5.7 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:7b
83
tok/s
E
Weights
7.44 GB
KV cache
0.47 GB
Activations
8.56 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#8Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 14.5 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GB
ollama run qwen3:14b
73
tok/s
E
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
2.47 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#9Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 14.5 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:14b
73
tok/s
E
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
2.47 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#10Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 20.0 GBHeadroom: 4.0 GB
ollama run llama3.1:8b
73
tok/s
E
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
1.07 GB
Activations
8.62 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#11InternLM 2.5 7B Chat
7B
internlm
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB
146
tok/s
E
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
8.40 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
#12Phi-4 14B
14B
phi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 14.5 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GB
ollama run phi4:14b
73
tok/s
E
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
2.47 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →

Runs with tradeoffs
49 models

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

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B-A3B)
30B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.6 GBHeadroom: 16.6 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~10% of layers run on CPU
ollama run nemotron3:nano
34
tok/s
E
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
2.95 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct
12B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 23.6 GBHeadroom: 0.4 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.4 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-nemo:12b
85
tok/s
E
Weights
7.25 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
8.55 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 22.9 GBHeadroom: 1.1 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:8b
73
tok/s
E
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
8.62 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Gemma 3 27B
27B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 40.6 GBHeadroom: 2.6 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~41% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma3:27b
38
tok/s
E
Weights
16.30 GB
KV cache
13.50 GB
Activations
9.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.6 GBHeadroom: 16.6 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~10% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b
34
tok/s
E
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
2.95 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 27.4 GBHeadroom: 15.8 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~12% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:31b
33
tok/s
E
Weights
18.72 GB
KV cache
3.88 GB
Activations
2.98 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Qwen 3 32B
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 28.1 GBHeadroom: 15.1 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~15% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32b
32
tok/s
E
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
3.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →
Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 28.1 GBHeadroom: 15.1 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~15% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32b
32
tok/s
E
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
3.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Run-on benchmark page →

What if you upgraded?

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

+32 GB system RAM

~$80–150

Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.

Unlocks: 17 new comfortable, 61 new tradeoff

  • • Gemma 3 1B
  • • Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
  • • Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
  • • Moondream 2
Shop this upgrade↗

Upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

~$2499

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

Unlocks: 45 new comfortable

  • • Gemma 3 1B
  • • Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
  • • Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
  • • DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Shop this upgrade↗

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

~$1199

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: 57 new comfortable

  • • Gemma 3 1B
  • • Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
  • • Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
  • • DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Shop this upgrade↗

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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 (19 GB) combined.

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Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)
397B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
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 (19 GB) combined.

—
Llama 4 Scout
109B
llama
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (24 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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How to read these numbers

M
Measured — we ran this exact combo on owner hardware.

~
Extrapolated — predicted from a measured benchmark on similar-bandwidth hardware.

E
Estimated — pure formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture.

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