How fast will Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B feel on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB?

Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB

Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B is a 27.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 17.6 GB of memory. The NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 43 tokens/sec (16–70), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M16.8 GBFits43 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q8_028.6 GBFits25 tok/s0.3 sDerived
FP1653.8 GBPartial offload2.3 tok/s1.2 sProjected

Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB

All models on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB · Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B on all 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.