HARDWARE FIT CHECK โ€ข Meta Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)71.66 GB / 32 GB VRAM

Can I Run Meta Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Meta Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE) (109B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7) (32 GB).

โŒ Out of Memory (OOM) โ€” Exceeds Hardware VRAM71.66 GB (224%)0 t/s

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Meta Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

โœ• Out of Memory โ€” Exceeds VRAM Capacity

โœ• OOM
Required VRAM
71.66 GB
224% of hardware capacity (32 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
0 tok/s
17B active params @ 1792 GB/s
Available Headroom
-39.66 GB
Needs +39.66 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
71.66 GB allocated of 32 GB capacity
224% utilized
Weights: 65.4 GB
KV: (32K): 3.22 GB
Overhead: 3.04 GB
Deficit: -39.66 GB
โšก Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~0 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7) (1792 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~0 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).
OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1 OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0 ollama run llama4:scout

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx โ€ข KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw218 GB3.22 GB229.6 GB (718%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw115.54 GB3.22 GB123.55 GB (386%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw89.38 GB3.22 GB96.48 GB (302%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw77.39 GB3.22 GB84.07 GB (263%)0 t/sOOM
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw65.4 GB3.22 GB71.66 GB (224%)0 t/sOOM
FP44.25 bpw57.77 GB3.22 GB63.76 GB (199%)0 t/sOOM
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw44.69 GB3.22 GB50.22 GB (157%)0 t/sOOM

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU32 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

Maximum tokens/sec on 27Bโ€“35B models & Blackwell FP4 quantization

1792 GB/s575W TDP
Consumer GPU24 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

The 24GB CUDA enthusiast standard for 14Bโ€“32B Q4_K_M models

1008 GB/s450W TDP
Multi-GPU Rig48 GB VRAM

2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dual Rig (48GB Total VRAM)

Best price-to-VRAM homelab rig for 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 3.8 27B Q8

936 GB/s700W TDP
Consumer GPU16 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7)

Blazing fast 8Bโ€“14B coding models with FP4/Q6_K precision

960 GB/s360W TDP

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