Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 run Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 11.4 GB of 32.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 128 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 128 tok/s
Prompt processing: 18,770 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 144K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

On Windows

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.

ollama run qwen3:4b-instruct-2507-fp16

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.

ollama run qwen3:4b-instruct-2507-fp16

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507

Recommended for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090: F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run qwen3:4b-instruct-2507-fp16

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GGUF:F16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3 (opens in a new tab)

Qwen’s main repo, renamed from Qwen2.5 to Qwen3; it still documents Qwen2.5.

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	24.3 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	8.3 / 15
Match score	72.6 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	5.0 GB	32.0 GB	899 tok/s	Runs great	37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	5.4 GB	32.0 GB	707 tok/s	Runs great	45Fair quality (C) · 45 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	5.9 GB	32.0 GB	547 tok/s	Runs great	51Fair quality (C) · 51 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	6.3 GB	32.0 GB	452 tok/s	Runs great	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	6.7 GB	32.0 GB	380 tok/s	Runs great	53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	7.7 GB	32.0 GB	279 tok/s	Runs great	54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	11.4 GB	32.0 GB	128 tok/s	Runs great	54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q8_0 · 42.3 tok/s · Runs great
54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 48.1 tok/s · Runs great
54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER F16 · 52.7 tok/s · Runs great
54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti F16 · 64.2 tok/s · Runs great
54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 F16 · 68.8 tok/s · Runs great
54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 54.1 tok/s · Runs great

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.