Qwen 3 32B needs ~26.7 GB VRAM. RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB has 24.0 GB. With Q4_K_M quantization, expect ~25 tok/s.
Operating mode
Interactive favors responsiveness, while light API and scale-out lean harder on serving readiness. The fit stays the same, but the recommendation lens changes.
Current mode
Balanced
Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
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2.7 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Very compromised (needs ~2 GB host RAM)
Decode
25.1 tok/s
TTFT
7721 ms
Safe context
5K
Memory
26.7 GB / 24.0 GB
Offload
10%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 10% of the working set spills out of accelerator memory, which usually hurts latency and sustained decode throughput.
Very little memory headroom
You can run the model, but there is not much room left for longer context, bigger batches, extra apps, or future model updates.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory
Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Buy headroom, not only minimum fit
A slightly larger memory tier gives you safer context growth and makes the recommendation more future-proof.
Increase host RAM if you keep offloading
This setup may need roughly 2.0 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | S | Runs with offload (needs ~0.6 GB host RAM) | 29.4 tok/s | 3590 ms | 5K |
| Coding | A | Very compromised (needs ~2 GB host RAM) | 25.1 tok/s | 7721 ms | 5K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 18.8 tok/s | 14966 ms | 5K |
| Reasoning | A | Very compromised (needs ~2 GB host RAM) | 25.1 tok/s | 9125 ms | 5K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 18.8 tok/s | 18707 ms |
How Qwen 3 32B (32B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB (24.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 12.5 GB | Low | S91 |
Q3_K_S | 3 | 15.7 GB | Low | S91 |
NVFP4Best for your GPU |
Copy-paste commands to run Qwen 3 32B on your machine.
Run
ollama run qwen3:32bYour hardware
| Model | Params | Grade | Decode | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | 35B | A | 49 tok/s | |
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Yes, RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB can run Qwen 3 32B with a A grade (Very compromised (needs ~2 GB host RAM)). Expected decode speed: 25.1 tok/s.
Qwen 3 32B (32B parameters) requires approximately 26.7 GB of memory with Q4_K_M quantization.
The recommended quantization for Qwen 3 32B is Q4_K_M, which balances quality and memory efficiency.
On RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB, Qwen 3 32B achieves approximately 25.1 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 7721ms using Q4_K_M quantization.
For coding workloads, Qwen 3 32B on RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB receives a A grade with 25.1 tok/s and 5K context.
On RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB, Qwen 3 32B can safely use up to 5K tokens of context. The model's official context limit is 131K, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
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Preview:
| 5K |
| 4 |
17.9 GB |
| Medium |
| S90 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 19.5 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 23.0 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 26.2 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 34.2 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 65.6 GB | Maximum | F0 |
| 35B |
| A |
| 65.3 tok/s |
Remove offload with more accelerator memory. Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.