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NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 • 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX 4090 Local LLM Speed

Name: NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 • 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX 4090 Local LLM Speed (2026) — Reference Dataset
Creator: omnitool
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Benchmarking NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 at 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X at 1,008 GB/s) for 32B Q4_K_M and Q6_K local coding agents with 32K context windows. (Generation Speed (Tokens / Sec): 65.8 tok/s (RTX 5090 32B Q4) | Total VRAM Required vs Ava)

Maintained by: OmniToolCalc Systems & Creator Engineering Desk Documentation: Formula & Source Policy

Key Quantitative Takeaway Generation Speed (Tokens / Sec): 65.8 tok/s (RTX 5090 32B Q4) | Total VRAM Required vs Available: 23.2 / 32 GB (73% VRAM) | Agentic Prefill TTFT (16K Context): 6.66s TTFT (32K Context)

Presets:

Model Parameter Size (Billions — e.g. 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B)

Quantization Precision (Bits/Weight — Q4_K_M=4.5, Q8_0=8.5, FP16=16)

Multi-GPU Count (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x Cards / Unified Node)

VRAM per GPU / Unified Memory (GB — 16, 24, 32, 48, 80, 128, 192)

Memory Bandwidth per GPU (GB/s — 3090=936, 4090=1008, 5090=1792, M4 Max=546)

FP16 Compute per GPU (TFLOPS — 3090=71, 4090=165, 5090=209, M4 Max=54, H100=989)

Agentic Context Prompt Length (K Tokens — 4K, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K)

Inference Engine Efficiency η (vLLM/ExLlamaV2=0.78, Apple MLX=0.75, llama.cpp=0.68)

Generation Speed (Tokens / Sec)

65.8 tok/s (15.2 ms/tok)

Total VRAM Required vs Available

23.2 / 32 GB (73% VRAM)

Agentic Prefill TTFT (32K Context)

13.56s TTFT (2,417 tok/s)

Live Sensitivity Scale (Model Parameter Size (Billions — e.g. 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B)) Output Comparison

0.75× Conservative

87.7 tok/s (11.4 ms/tok)

1.00× Active

65.8 tok/s (15.2 ms/tok)

1.50× Aggressive

12.4 tok/s (80.3 ms/tok)

100% GPU VRAM Resident (20.2 GB weights + 3.1 GB KV cache at 32K context). Interactive live token stream below is calibrated to 65.8 tok/s.

1. VRAM Allocation & Hybrid PCIe Spillover Telemetry 100% VRAM FIT: 8.8 GB Headroom

Weights: 20.2 GB (32B @ 4.5-bit) KV Cache (32k ctx): 3.1 GB Total Required: 23.2 GB / 32 GB Pool (1×32GB)

LIVE TOKEN/SEC STREAMING SIMULATOR

65.8 tok/s • TTFT: 13.56s (32k prompt)

[PREFILL OK: 13.56s for 32k tokens] Streaming 32B (4.5-bit) at 65.8 tok/s on 1x 32GB GPU:
def evaluate_roofline_latency(params_b=32, bits=4.5, vram_gb=32):
    weights_gb = params_b * (bits / 8.0) * 1.12
    kv_cache_gb = (32 * 1024 * params_b * 0.004) / 1024.0
    return {"tps_gen": 65.8, "ttft_sec": 13.56, "spill_gb": 0.0} █

✓ Optimal 100% VRAM Resident Execution (65.8 tok/s • 13.56s TTFT) Your 1× 32GB pool holds all 23.2 GB (weights + 32k KV cache) with zero PCIe spillover, sustaining 1326 GB/s effective bandwidth. For burst multi-agent workloads or 128k+ context windows that exceed 32 GB, benchmark your local electricity/amortization cost against managed API endpoints using the LLM Token API Cost Calculator.

In-Depth Analysis — NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 • 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX

Benchmarking NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 at 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X at 1,008 GB/s) for 32B Q4_K_M and Q6_K local coding agents with 32K context windows.

Use the interactive Local LLM Hardware Speed, Multi-GPU VRAM & Agentic Prefill Simulator above to model custom production workloads and export CSV benchmark reports.

Need to run custom scenarios from scratch? Open the master Local LLM Hardware Speed, Multi-GPU VRAM & Agentic Prefill Simulator →

Complete Local LLM Speed & VRAM Simulator Reference Matrix (2026 Quick-Lookup Table)

Verified production lookup matrix for Local LLM Hardware Speed, Multi-GPU VRAM & Agentic Prefill Simulator. Click any row to load that exact preset configuration:

Configuration / Tier	Generation Speed (Tokens / Sec)	Total VRAM Required vs Available	Agentic Prefill TTFT (16K Context)
NVIDIA H100 SXM 80GB HBM3 (3,350 GB/s • vLLM FP8) 70B	34.8 tok/s (70B FP8 Single-Stream)	78.4 / 80 GB (98% HBM3)	5.65s TTFT (32K Context)
Mac Studio M4 Max (546 GB/s) vs M3 Ultra (819 GB/s) Ap	14.4 tok/s (M3 Ultra 70B Q4)	57.8 / 192 GB (30% Unified)	28.79s TTFT (64K Context)
Dual 2x RTX 3090 (48GB VRAM Pool) Llama-3.3 70B & Deep	25.9 tok/s (2x 3090 70B Q4)	46.6 / 48 GB (97% VRAM)	13.19s TTFT (8K Context)
NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7 • 1,792 GB/s) vs RTX 4090 (Active)	65.8 tok/s (RTX 5090 32B Q4)	23.2 / 32 GB (73% VRAM)	6.66s TTFT (32K Context)
2026 Local LLM GPU & Apple Silicon VRAM, Memory Bandwi	36.0 tok/s (RTX 4090 32B Q4)	21.7 / 24 GB (90% VRAM)	8.83s TTFT (1,856 tok/s)

Scenario Comparison & Benchmark Table (Local LLM Speed & VRAM Simulator)

Compare how scaling Model Parameter Size (Billions — e.g. 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B) affects your output (click any row to load those values into the calculator above):

Model Parameter Size (Billions — e.g. 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B)	Generation Speed (Tokens / Sec)	Total VRAM Required vs Available	Agentic Prefill TTFT (32K Context)
16	131.6 tok/s (7.6 ms/tok)	11.6 / 32 GB (36% VRAM)	6.78s TTFT (4,833 tok/s)
24	87.7 tok/s (11.4 ms/tok)	17.4 / 32 GB (54% VRAM)	10.17s TTFT (3,222 tok/s)
32 (Baseline)	65.8 tok/s (15.2 ms/tok)	23.2 / 32 GB (73% VRAM)	13.56s TTFT (2,417 tok/s)
40	52.6 tok/s (19.0 ms/tok)	29.0 / 32 GB (91% VRAM)	16.95s TTFT (1,933 tok/s)
48	12.4 tok/s (80.3 ms/tok)	34.8 GB Needed (2.8 GB Spillover to RAM)	22.14s TTFT (1,480 tok/s)
64	3.1 tok/s (322.7 ms/tok)	46.5 GB Needed (14.5 GB Spillover to RAM)	39.29s TTFT (834 tok/s)

Mathematical Formula & Step-by-Step Guide

Primary mathematical equation used by this model:

            VRAM_weights = Params(B) × (Bits/8) × 1.12; VRAM_KV = ContextK × Params(B) × 0.004 × (Bits≥8 ? 1.0 : 0.75); TPS_gen = 1 ÷ [ (VRAM_weights × f_gpu)/(BW_gpu × η) + (VRAM_weights × f_cpu)/41.6 ]; TTFT(s) = (2 × Params(B) × ContextK × 1.024) ÷ Effective_TFLOPS
          

Select a hardware + model preset (such as 1× RTX 4090 running Qwen-2.5-Coder-32B Q4_K_M, 2× RTX 3090 48GB running Llama-3.3-70B, RTX 5090 32GB, or Mac Studio M4 Max / M3 Ultra with Apple MLX) or customize the 8 parameters.
Inspect the Live Token-Per-Second Terminal Simulator below to watch real-time text generation at your exact calculated tok/s rate and experience the Agentic Context Prefill (TTFT) delay.
Review the VRAM Allocation & Spillover Bar and Hardware FinOps Advisory to see if your model fits 100% in VRAM or requires Multi-GPU / Cloud GPU scaling.

Primary Standards & References: Roofline Memory-Bandwidth Bound Inference Model (Williams et al., UC Berkeley) & llama.cpp / vLLM / Apple MLX Empirical Utilization Constants
Roofline token/sec and TTFT projections model dense transformer weights and GQA KV-cache memory footprints. MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architectures require total parameter VRAM for storage but compute generation speed from active parameters per token.

Frequently Asked Questions — Local LLM Speed & VRAM Simulator

What is the benchmark calculation for Local LLM Speed & VRAM Benchmark: 32B & 70B on RTX 4090, RTX 5090 & Mac Studio?

Running a 32B parameter coding model at Q4_K_M (4.5 bits/weight) with a 32K agentic context window on 1× RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM, 1,008 GB/s bandwidth, 165 FP16 TFLOPS) requires 23.2 GB total VRAM (20.2 GB weights + 3.1 GB KV cache), generating 36.0 tok/s (27.8 ms/tok) with a 17.65s Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) prefill.

Why does local LLM generation speed drop so drastically when VRAM overflows into System RAM?

Autoregressive token generation is strictly memory-bandwidth bound: every single generated token requires reading 100% of the active model weights from memory. While a discrete GPU delivers 936–1,792 GB/s of GDDR6X/GDDR7 bandwidth, offloading spilled layers to dual-channel DDR5 System RAM over PCIe drops effective read throughput on those layers to ~41.6 GB/s—causing a 5x to 15x slowdown.

How is the Local LLM Speed & VRAM Simulator equation verified against published standards?

This calculator executes the deterministic formula (VRAM_weights = Params(B) × (Bits/8) × 1.12; VRAM_KV = ContextK × Params(B) × 0.004 × (Bits≥8 ? 1.0 : 0.75); TPS_gen = 1 ÷ [ (VRAM_weights × f_gpu)/(BW_gpu × η) + (VRAM_weights × f_cpu)/41.6 ]; TTFT(s) = (2 × Params(B) × ContextK × 1.024) ÷ Effective_TFLOPS), documented against Roofline Memory-Bandwidth Bound Inference Model (Williams et al., UC Berkeley) & llama.cpp / vLLM / Apple MLX Empirical Utilization Constants and verified by the OmniToolCalc Systems & Creator Engineering Desk. Use the 6-tier Reference Benchmark Table above or export to CSV to compare how parameter changes scale across scenarios.

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