How fast will local models feel on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB?

Local LLM speed on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB

The NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB has 32 GB of memory and 1792 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_MFits43 tok/s0.3 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits347 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits289 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits391 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits308 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Partial offload39 tok/s1.2 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits39 tok/s0.3 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits69 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits98 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits53 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits96 tok/s0.3 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits28 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits278 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.