With 24 GB,
here is what really runs.
Experiences reported by people using their machines every day. Not a performance promise: a concrete place to start.
in this range
Grading 500 student exams with a local model
A teacher runs an entire exam-correction pipeline on a single 3090, from generating answer sheets to scoring hundreds of students automatically.
Running a small e-commerce business on Qwen 3.8 27B
A cloned five-store e-commerce operation — cart, mailings, WhatsApp login, payment gateways — runs day to day on a single 7900XT, turning a real monthly profit.
Video cropping, UI bug fixes, and news roundups on a 24GB card
A detailed personal checklist for getting a local setup to a genuinely reliable state — quant choice, inference engine by OS, and only then, real tasks.
Full app development on a single 3090 with OpenCode
A four-bit Qwen 3.8 quant at 200K context handles complete app builds through OpenCode, left running until it hits a decision point.
PR review and support triage on two budget RTX 3060s
Two 12GB 3060s handle both code review and customer-support lookups, reasoning read-only over live account data and internal docs.
Processing thousands of in-game documents to build roleplay casefiles
Playing a detective in a large GTA V roleplay server, this person used a local model to turn thousands of in-game arrest reports and applications into structured criminal profiles.