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RTX 3090

Released 2020-09-24 · Street $900
vram
24 GB
discrete
bandwidth
936
GB/s
models fit
13
top · Q6_K
power
350 W
high

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
RTX 3090
NVIDIA · Ampere · sm_86
vram
24 GB
bandwidth
936 GB/s
tdp
350 W
released
2020-09-24
msrp
$1,499
street
~$900
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
Q6_K · GGUF · 21.8 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram21.8 / 24 GB
speed43 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q6_Kwastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
Full model inspect →

Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bQ6_K21.8 GB4350.6Ok
02Qwen2.5 Coder 32BQ5_K_M21.5 GB4448.8Ok
03Gemma 2 27BQ6_K21.8 GB4346.2Ok
04Qwen3 32BQ5_K_M21.5 GB4440.0Ok
05Gemma 2 9BFP1619.4 GB4835.0Great
06Gemma 3 12BQ8_013.1 GB7131.3Great
07deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bQ5_K_M21.5 GB4433.3Ok
08Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB10515.1Great
09Mixtral 8x7B v0.1Q2_K18.9 GB5013.3Great
10Gemma 2 2bFP164.7 GB1990.0Great
Showing 10 of 13 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+RTX 5090
32 GB · ~$2,399 · +$1,499 over RTX 3090
Unlocks +3 models not in current rank
See RTX 5090
Bigger tier
+A6000 Pro
48 GB · ~$4,200 · +$3,300 over RTX 3090
Unlocks +4 models not in current rank
See A6000 Pro
Premium tier
+RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB · ~$7,000 · +$6,100 over RTX 3090
Unlocks +4 models not in current rank
See RTX 6000 Ada

Also compare

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32 GB · NVIDIA · 167% more
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16 GB · NVIDIA · 22% more
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16 GB · NVIDIA · 6% cheaper
RTX 5070
12 GB · NVIDIA · 33% cheaper
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