The best free AI for the RTX 4090
The best free AI models on the RTX 4090 (24 GB, 1008 GB/s) with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, at 4-bit with 8K context.
What the video says
What's the best free AI for an RTX 4090?
It has 24 gigabytes of memory.
With 32 gigabytes of RAM, the best one is from Google, at about 36 tokens per second.
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The data
- Gemma 4 31B: about 36 tokens/s (Arena 1452, fully on the GPU)
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: about 152 tokens/s (Arena 1438, fully on the GPU)
- Qwen3.8-27B: about 43 tokens/s (Arena 1436, fully on the GPU)
- Estimates from our simulator. Try your own card: https://freellmarena.com/home
Hardware
Memory at 4-bit with an 8K context, from our simulator. To check your own setup, use the Run at home simulator.
- RTX 4090 (24 GB): holds it fully in memory · Amazon ↗
- Gemma 4 31B: about 36 tokens/s, about 22 GB at 4-bit (fully on the GPU)
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: about 152 tokens/s, about 18 GB at 4-bit (fully on the GPU)
- Qwen3.8-27B: about 43 tokens/s, about 20 GB at 4-bit (fully on the GPU)
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Every number in this post comes from the FreeLLMArena data on 4 Nov 2026: Arena votes, Hugging Face sizes and our speed simulator. Download the video and its subtitles.
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