NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Hardware · NVIDIA

What AI models can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 run?

VRAM
32.0 GB
Usable for models
32.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
1,792 GB/s
FP16 compute
104.8 TFLOPS
Released
2025
Launch price
$1,999
513 / 621 LLMs run Best: Qwen3.8 27B 60 / 61 Image models run Best: FLUX 3 Image Klein 40 / 43 Video models run Best: LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio) 68 / 70 Decision models run Best: Qwen3 Reranker 4B

More about this hardware

MakerNVIDIA
TypeGraphics card
InterfacePCIe 5.0

Apps that run models well on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Windows

  1. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  2. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  3. llama.cppUsually the first to support new model architectures.
  4. JanPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Linux

  1. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  2. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  3. llama.cppUsually the first to support new model architectures.
  4. JanPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

For a typical model that fits in memory. Each model page picks the best app for that model on this hardware. All apps

9 products with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Best LLMs for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
94Excellent quality (A+) · 94 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 97/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba Q6_K 25.5 GB 54.9 tok/s Runs great
93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba Q6_K 25.5 GB 54.9 tok/s Runs great
94Excellent quality (A+) · 94 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nanbeige4.3 33BBOSS Zhipin (Nanbeige) Q6_K 31.1 GB 46.1 tok/s Runs welltight fit
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 27BAlibaba Q6_K 25.5 GB 54.9 tok/s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4BGoogle Q6_K 23.8 GB 164 tok/s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Muse Glimmer 30BMeta Q6_K 26.7 GB 51.3 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 31.8 GB 179 tok/s Runs welltight fit
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB Q6_K 31.2 GB 179 tok/s Runs welltight fit
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 31.8 GB 179 tok/s Runs welltight fit
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. TMax 27BAi2 Q6_K 25.2 GB 55.8 tok/s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B)Nex-AGI Q6_K 31.2 GB 179 tok/s Runs welltight fit
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 31BGoogle Q5_K_M 26.0 GB 58.1 tok/s Runs great

Best Image models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs FP16 22.4 GB 4.8 s Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Krea 2 TurboKrea FP8 20.2 GB 3.2 s Runs great
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu FP16 26.4 GB 2.7 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) FP16 22.7 GB 2.1 s Runs great
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen-Image 2.1 TurboAlibaba FP8 30.8 GB 8.7 s Runs welltight fit
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs Q8 GGUF 20.5 GB 1.7 s Runs great

Best Video models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio)Lightricks Q4 GGUF 26.8 GB 1.6 min Runs greatencoder in RAM
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Bernini-R A14B (video generation + editing)ByteDance FP8 26.0 GB 9.0 min Runs well
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. HY-OmniWeaving (8.3B, unified video)Tencent FP8 24.6 GB 6.7 min Runs well
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 13B 0.9.8 (distilled)Lightricks FP8 30.1 GB 45 s Runs welltight fit
72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FramePack I2V (HunyuanVideo 13B)lllyasviel FP8 28.2 GB 5.0 min Runs welltight fit

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba F16 10.5 GB 39 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 8BAlibaba F16 18.9 GB 75 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy F16 10.5 GB 39 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Skywork Reward V2 Llama 3.1 8BSkywork Q8_0 10.4 GB 115 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI F16 3.6 GB 9.2 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Shieldstral 1.0 3BMistral AI F16 10.1 GB 38 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intern-Decision 4BShanghai AI Lab F16 11.3 GB 28 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI F16 3.6 GB 9.2 ms Runs great

Best LLMs by task on this hardware Open in Model Finder

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.

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