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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 run gemma3 27B?

FULL

18.9 GB needed of 24 GB usable — headroom for context

24GB · Ada · model file 17GB · 27B

~27–45 tok/s

computed roofline: 1008 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 17.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run gemma3 27B on instead

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs gemma3 27B fully ($999)

rtx-5090 — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

every model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 can run — full list

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