Can I run Laguna S 2.1 on an RTX 3090?
Key facts
No: it needs about 97 GB and this card has 24 GB of graphics memory.
It needs about 97.3 GB at standard quality (estimate). Checked . poolside Q4_K_M GGUF.
Updated · Laguna S 2.1 on every card
How much memory it needs
That is about 4.2 times what this card has free.
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What runs Laguna S 2.1 instead
The cheapest machine on our list that holds the whole model in its graphics memory:
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GBabout $11,565€12,500
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Price details
$11,565€12,500
How we priced this
Not checked against a shop listing (price unverified). Price from 16 Oct 2026.
Our estimate for this configuration; Apple's own store price was not checked. About €12,500–€13,000; we use the low end. 256 GB needs the 36-core CPU / 80-core GPU chip.
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Laguna S 2.1 on other graphics cards
Runs slowly2
Part of the model spills into normal memory, which is much slower.
Doesn't fit8
Not enough graphics memory: it needs about 97.3 GB.
- RTX 3060 12GBhas 12 GB
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GBhas 16 GB
- RTX 3090has 24 GB
- RTX 4090has 24 GB
- RTX 5080has 16 GB
- RX 9060 XT 16GBhas 16 GB
- RTX 5090has 32 GB
- RX 7900 XTXhas 24 GB
More about the model itself, what it is good at and its licence: Laguna S 2.1.
The numbers behind this answer
A model comes in several sizes. Q4 is the standard one most people use; the bigger ones answer a little better but need more memory. Each row adds up the model file, the memory a conversation takes, and some working space, and compares the total with what is free on this card.
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| Quality | Conversation | Result | Model file | Conversation memory | Working space | Total needed | Free memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 · standard (smallest that keeps quality) | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 96.0 GBmeasured file | 0.5 GB | 0.8 GB | 97.3 GB | 23.4 GB |
| Q5 · a bit sharper, a bit bigger | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 113.6 GB | 0.5 GB | 0.8 GB | 114.9 GB | 23.4 GB |
| Q8 · near full quality, almost twice Q4 | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 126.3 GB | 0.5 GB | 0.8 GB | 127.5 GB | 23.4 GB |
| FP16 · full quality, over three times Q4 | ~12 pages8,192 tokens | Doesn't fit | 236.0 GB | 0.5 GB | 0.8 GB | 237.3 GB | 23.4 GB |
| Q4 · standard, longer conversation | ~49 pages32,768 tokens | Doesn't fit | 96.0 GBmeasured file | 1.7 GB | 0.8 GB | 98.5 GB | 23.4 GB |
speed: not estimated for MoE yet. This model only uses part of itself for each word (a mixture of experts), and our speed estimate does not handle that yet.
Sources and method
Memory and speed on this page are our estimate, not a measured test. Checked . poolside Q4_K_M GGUF.
Poolside's coding mixture of experts: 118B total, about 8B active, 256 routed experts with 10 per token plus one shared expert, context 1,048,576. Open weights under OpenMDW-1.1. 12 of 48 layers attend to the whole context; the other 36 use a 512-token window. The DFlash draft (2.23 GB) is not in these file sizes.
Questions
- Can I run Laguna S 2.1 on an RTX 3090?
- No: it needs about 97 GB and this card has 24 GB of graphics memory.
- How much memory does Laguna S 2.1 need?
- About 97.3 GB at the standard quality (Q4) for a conversation of up to about 12 pages of text (8,192 tokens), by our estimate: 96.0 GB for the model file (measured), 0.5 GB to hold the conversation and 0.8 GB of working space.
- How fast is Laguna S 2.1 on an RTX 3090?
- We don't give a speed for this model yet. This model only uses part of itself for each word (a mixture of experts), and our speed estimate does not handle that yet.
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