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RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090

For running local LLMs · 82 reports across 11 models

Side A
RTX 4090
Vendor
nvidia
VRAM
24GB
Memory
Discrete
Side B
RTX 5090
Vendor
nvidia
VRAM
32GB
Memory
Discrete

Highest reported generation speed by model family

These maxima come from different community setups. Model size, quantization, GPU count, offloading and concurrency may differ. They do not establish which GPU is faster for the same workload. Check the comparison conditions →

ModelRTX 4090RTX 5090
Qwen3.8up to 2400B134.0n=7220.0n=35
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B180.0n=6120.0n=10
Qwen3.6up to 35B80.0n=2215.1n=6
Gemma 4up to 31B149.6n=2578.0n=4
Museup to 30B253.0n=4
GLM-5.2up to 744Bn=1
GLM-5.3up to 321B24.5n=1
Kimi K2.5n=1
Qwen2.5up to 32Bn=1
Qwen3up to 235B159.0n=1
Qwen3.5up to 122Bn=1

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