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What is the best coding model you can run on one GPU? On 24GB, Qwen3.8 27B

The short answer for a 3090, 4090 or any 24GB card, what changes on 16GB and 12GB, the fast MoE alternatives, and the honest limits of every benchmark number, re-checked on each vendor's own page Nov 6, 2026.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · 9 min

Best model for 24GB: 3090 or 4090? Start with Qwen3.8 27B. A screenshot of Ollama's qwen3.8 tag list with the 27b q4_K_M row outlined, and a card reading qwen3.8:27b Ollama download 18 GB, read Nov 6, 2026.

What's the best model to run on a 24GB GPU like a 3090 or 4090? Qwen3.8 27B, and when to pick another

Short answer: Qwen3.8 27B. On our VRAM numbers it fits a 24GB card at Q5_K_M with 32K of context, and Ollama's default download is 18 GB. Gemma 4 and Qwen3.6 MoE models are faster, gpt-oss-20b leaves the most room, and NVIDIA's 24GB Nemotron comes with a runtime catch.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · 9 min