Can the RTX 3090 run Qwen3.5 4B?
Yes. Qwen3.5 4B fits the RTX 3090's 24 GB at Q4_K_M (about 4.8 GB needed), running at an estimated 183 tok/s. There's room for up to FP16 if you want higher quality.
Every quantization
Qwen3.5 4B (4.7B) on 24 GB
| Quant | Weights | Needs | Fit | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 3 GB | 4.8 GB | Fits easily | ~183 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | 3 GB | 4.8 GB | Fits easily | ~183 tok/s |
| Q8_0 | 5 GB | 6.8 GB | Fits easily | ~110 tok/s |
| FP16 | 9 GB | 10.8 GB | Fits easily | ~61 tok/s |
Estimates. Needs = weights + 1.8 GB for KV cache and runtime at modest context. Speed is single-stream decode scaled from the RTX 3090's 936 GB/s bandwidth (XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference). Long contexts need more memory and run slower.
Run it
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llama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-4B-GGUF -ngl 99Ollama pulls a Q4 build by default. Pick a larger quant only if the table above says it fits. Full Qwen3.5 4B details →
Compare
Same model, other hardware - and other models on this card
Qwen3.5 4B on other hardware
- RTX 5090~343 tok/s
- RTX 5090 D~342 tok/s
- RTX 6000D~300 tok/s
- RTX 4090~209 tok/s
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX~183 tok/s
- RTX 5080~183 tok/s
- RTX 3080 Ti~174 tok/s
- RTX 5080 Mobile~171 tok/s
Also runs on the RTX 3090
- GLM-4.7-Flash~211 tok/s
- Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507~206 tok/s
- Qwen3.6 27B~34 tok/s
- Qwen3.8 27B~34 tok/s
- Gemma 4 26B A4B~161 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b~182 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct~61 tok/s
- Qwen3 14B~68 tok/s
Frequently asked
Quick answers
Can the NVIDIA RTX 3090 run Qwen3.5 4B?
Yes. Qwen3.5 4B fits the RTX 3090's 24 GB at Q4_K_M (about 4.8 GB needed), running at an estimated 183 tok/s. There's room for up to FP16 if you want higher quality.
How much VRAM does Qwen3.5 4B need?
About 3 GB of weights at Q4_K_M, 5 GB at Q8_0 and 9 GB at FP16. Add roughly 1.8 GB for the KV cache and runtime at modest context lengths.
How fast is Qwen3.5 4B on the RTX 3090?
Roughly 183 tokens per second at Q4_K_M (single user, llama.cpp-style decode). This is an estimate from the RTX 3090's 936 GB/s memory bandwidth.