HARDWARE FIT CHECK • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)25.22 GB / 24 GB VRAM

Can I Run Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct (32.5B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X) (24 GB).

⚡ PARTIAL OFFLOAD25.22 GB (105%)~7 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

interactive
The #1 Open-Source Coding Benchmark Model for 24GB–32GB GPUs
GPU Topology / Quantity:Single GPU / Unified SoC
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

⚠️ Partial Offload — Slow CPU/RAM Spillover

⚡ PARTIAL OFFLOAD
Required VRAM
25.22 GB
105% of hardware capacity (24 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
~7 tok/s
Dense model @ 1008 GB/s
Available Headroom
-1.22 GB
Needs +1.22 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
25.22 GB allocated of 24 GB capacity
105% utilized
Weights: 19.5 GB
KV: (32K): 4.29 GB
Overhead: 1.43 GB
Deficit: -1.22 GB
⚡ Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~7 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X) (1008 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~102 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 qwen2.5-coder:32b

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

⚡ Partial Offload: Dedicated 100% GPU Options
High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU✓ Fits Model
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✓ Fits Model
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 bpw65 GB4.29 GB72.32 GB (301%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw34.45 GB4.29 GB40.7 GB (170%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw26.65 GB4.29 GB32.62 GB (136%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw23.07 GB4.29 GB28.92 GB (121%)~6 t/sPARTIAL
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw19.5 GB4.29 GB25.22 GB (105%)~7 t/sPARTIAL
FP44.25 bpw17.23 GB4.29 GB22.87 GB (95%)~38 t/sFITS
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw13.32 GB4.29 GB18.83 GB (78%)~48 t/sFITS

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FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

How much VRAM does Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct need on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct requires 25.22 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 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 7 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.