NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 × Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Can the RTX 4090 run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

Yes

Yes. The RTX 4090 can run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at up to F16 (needs ~8.3 GB of 22.8 GB usable), at an estimated ~300 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.

Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 186.21 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.

By quantization (8K context)

QuantMemory neededFits?Est. tok/s
Q3_K_M3.3 GB✅~300
Q4_K_M3.7 GB✅~300
Q5_K_M4.1 GB✅~300
Q6_K4.5 GB✅~270
Q8_05.2 GB✅~209
F168.3 GB✅~111

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