NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB: Specs & Local-AI Compatibility
Fast but memory-limited at 10GB — best for smaller models.
Specs
- Memory
- 10 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6X
- Bandwidth
- 760 GB/s
- Approx FP16
- 30 TFLOPS
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Process
- Samsung 8nm
- Power
- 320 W
- Launch
- 2020
Models this chip can run
Open models graded for a single NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB, best fit first.
- Gemma 2 9BGemma · ~9B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q4_K_M (~7GB) with ~1.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~7GBRuns well - Llama 3.1 8BLlama · ~8B · 128K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~6GB) with ~2.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~6GBRuns well - Qwen3 8BQwen · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q4_K_M (~6GB) with ~2.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~6GBRuns well - Granite 3 8BGranite · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q4_K_M (~6GB) with ~2.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~6GBRuns well - DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek · ~8B · 128K ctx · MIT
Fits at Q4_K_M (~6GB) with ~2.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~6GBRuns well - Qwen2.5 7B InstructQwen2.5 · ~7.6B · 33K ctx · apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~8.4GB) with ~0.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~8.4GBRuns well - Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructQwen2.5 · ~7.6B · 131K ctx · apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~8.4GB) with ~0.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~8.4GBRuns well - Qwen2.5 7BQwen · ~7B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~8GB) with ~0.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~8GBRuns well
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