Qwen3.8-27B on 12, 16, 24 and 32 GB: what fits, what runs, and what each lever costs
Five consumer cards, one model, 91 measured points
Date
2026-09-09
Hardware
RTX 3060 · RTX 3090 · RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · RTX 4090 · RTX 5090
One passport per card, read from its bench.json and from the stand.txt
the harness captured on the machine, alongside the provider panel frame as it
was taken. A card with no passport or no frame says so rather than being left
out.
Card
VRAM
PCIe
Driver
CUDA
CPU
Cores / threads
System RAM
Memory bandwidth
llama.cpp
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GiB
3.0 x16
595.84
13.2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz
8 / 16
62 GiB
34.6 GB/s
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GiB
3.0 x16
595.84
13.2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
8 / 16
62 GiB
34.5 GB/s
df750f76b
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
16 GiB
4.0 x16
595.58.03
13.2
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
8 / 16
62 GiB
43.3 GB/s
—
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GiB
4.0 x16
590.48.01
13.1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core Processor
8 / 16
62 GiB
31.3 GB/s
df750f76b
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
31.8 GiB
5.0 x16
580.159.03
13.0
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor
8 / 16
60 GiB
68.1 GB/s
df750f76b
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Board
B460M Pro4
Machine ID
146697 (host 613713)
Instance ID
50375466
Price
$0.221/hr
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — instance 50375466
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Board
ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING
Machine ID
149874 (host 623721)
Instance ID
50354495
Price
$0.172/hr
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — instance 50354495
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Board
B550M AORUS ELITE
Machine ID
93269 (host 435128)
Instance ID
50403508
Price
$0.131/hr
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — instance 50403508
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Board
B550M Pro4
Machine ID
57808 (host 370680)
Instance ID
50361969
Price
$0.390/hr
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — instance 50361969
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Board
PRO X870E-P WIFI
Machine ID
70996 (host 343861)
Instance ID
50387901
Price
$0.074/hr
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — instance 50387901
Memory bandwidth is our own measurement on the host, by a bytearray memcpy over a
128 MiB working set — not a vendor figure.