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RUNLOCALAI · v38
Will it run? / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 / agents

What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 run for agents?

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

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

Runs comfortably
110 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
72
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#2Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 18.9 GBHeadroom: 5.1 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:14b
63
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.63 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.49 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#3Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.1 GBHeadroom: 13.9 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:7b
82
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.44 GB
KV cache
0.47 GB
Activations
0.38 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#4Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.9 GBHeadroom: 13.1 GB
126
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.83 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#5Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
7B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.4 GBHeadroom: 13.6 GB
ollama run mistral:7b
126
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.81 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#6Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: FP16Context: 8,192VRAM: 19.7 GBHeadroom: 4.3 GB
ollama run llama3.1:8b
38
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
16.00 GB
KV cache
1.07 GB
Activations
0.81 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#7Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GB
ollama run qwen3:14b
72
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#8Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 17.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GB
72
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
7.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#9Qwen 2.5 Math 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 8.0 GBHeadroom: 16.0 GB
144
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#10Qwen 3 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 14.3 GB
144
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#11CodeQwen 1.5 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 14.3 GB
144
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#12Qwen 2-VL 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 14.3 GB
144
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
52 models

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

Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B
24B
dolphin
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 20.0 GBHeadroom: 4.0 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 4.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run dolphin-mistral:24b
42
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.49 GB
KV cache
3.00 GB
Activations
0.73 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 35.8 GBHeadroom: 7.4 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
15.00 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 22.6 GBHeadroom: 1.4 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.4 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
31
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
0.54 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 38.1 GBHeadroom: 5.1 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~37% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32b
31
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
16.00 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B-A3B)
30B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 35.8 GBHeadroom: 7.4 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run nemotron3:nano
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
15.00 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 32B
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 40.9 GBHeadroom: 2.3 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~41% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32b
28
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
22.00 GB
KV cache
16.00 GB
Activations
1.11 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
47B
mixtral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 37.5 GBHeadroom: 5.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~36% of layers run on CPU
ollama run mixtral:8x7b
21
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
28.38 GB
KV cache
5.88 GB
Activations
1.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Mistral Small 3 24B
24B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 20.0 GBHeadroom: 4.0 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 4.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-small:24b
42
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.49 GB
KV cache
3.00 GB
Activations
0.73 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →

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: 98 new comfortable, 65 new tradeoff

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
Shop this upgrade↗

Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell

see current pricing

32 GB VRAM (vs your 24 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~936 GB/s to ~896 GB/s.

Unlocks: 124 new comfortable

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
Shop this upgrade↗

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

~$899

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: 148 new comfortable

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
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.

—
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 R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
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.

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How to read these numbers

Measured here
Measured here - RunLocalAI ran this exact combo on owner hardware with public evidence.

Source-backed
Source-backed / community - a reproduced public source supports the speed, but it is not labeled as owner-measured.

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

Estimated
Estimated - formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture; not a benchmark row.

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