How fast will local models feel on the NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB?

Local LLM speed on the NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB

The NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB has 24 GB of memory and 1008 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is what mostly decides generation speed. Below is the expected speed for each model at the best quantization that fits.

ModelQuantizationMemoryGenerationFirst token
Qwen 3.6/3.8 27BQ4_K_MFits24 tok/s0.3 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits195 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits163 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MPartial offload191 tok/s1.2 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MPartial offload213 tok/s1.2 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Doesn't fitWon't run—
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits22 tok/s0.3 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits109 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits55 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits54 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits54 tok/s0.3 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits16 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits156 tok/s0.3 s

Other hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.