HARDWARE FIT CHECK • Microsoft Phi-4 14B + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)13.24 GB / 24 GB VRAM

Can I Run Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Microsoft Phi-4 14B (14.7B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X) (24 GB).

✓ FITS IN VRAM13.24 GB (55%)~71 t/s

Target Hardware & Model

interactive
High-accuracy mathematical and scientific reasoning on 16GB GPUs
Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

✓ Fits Comfortably in VRAM

✓ FITS IN VRAM
Required VRAM
13.24 GB
55% of hardware capacity (24 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
~71 tok/s
Dense model @ 1008 GB/s
Available Headroom
+10.76 GB
Safe for OS display & full context
Memory Allocation & Headroom
13.24 GB allocated of 24 GB capacity
55% utilized
Weights: 8.82 GB
KV: (32K): 3.36 GB
Overhead: 1.06 GB
Free Headroom: +10.76 GB
⚡ Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~71 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X) (1008 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~1,030 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU
32 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

Maximum tokens/sec on 27B–35B models & Blackwell FP4 quantization

1792 GB/s575W TDP
Consumer GPU
24 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

The 24GB CUDA enthusiast standard for 14B–32B Q4_K_M models

1008 GB/s450W TDP
Multi-GPU Rig
48 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 GPU
16 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7)

Blazing fast 8B–14B coding models with FP4/Q6_K precision

960 GB/s360W TDP

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx • KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw29.4 GB3.36 GB34.54 GB (144%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw15.58 GB3.36 GB20.24 GB (84%)~42 t/sFITS
Q6_K6.56 bpw12.05 GB3.36 GB16.58 GB (69%)~53 t/sFITS
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw10.44 GB3.36 GB14.92 GB (62%)~61 t/sFITS
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw8.82 GB3.36 GB13.24 GB (55%)~71 t/sFITS
FP44.25 bpw7.79 GB3.36 GB12.17 GB (51%)~79 t/sFITS
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw6.03 GB3.36 GB10.35 GB (43%)~100 t/sFITS

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FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: Microsoft Phi-4 14B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

How much VRAM does Microsoft Phi-4 14B need on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Microsoft Phi-4 14B requires 13.24 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will Microsoft Phi-4 14B achieve on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)?

Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)'s 1008 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 71 tokens per second.

Can I expand context beyond 32K tokens?

Each additional 32K tokens of context requires additional KV cache memory. For longer context windows, consider 8-bit or 4-bit KV cache quantization.