NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Hardware · NVIDIA

What AI models can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 run?

VRAM
8.0 GB
Usable for models
8.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
448 GB/s
FP16 compute
10.1 TFLOPS
Released
2018
Launch price
$699
459 / 622 LLMs run Best: K2 Horizon 7B 49 / 61 Image models run Best: FLUX.2 [klein] 4B 7 / 43 Video models run Best: LTX-Video 2B 65 / 70 Decision models run Best: Jina Reranker v3.5

More about this hardware

MakerNVIDIA
TypeGraphics card
InterfacePCIe 3.0

Apps that run models well on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Windows

  1. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  2. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  3. llama.cppUsually the first to support new model architectures.
  4. JanPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Linux

  1. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  2. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  3. llama.cppUsually the first to support new model architectures.
  4. JanPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

For a typical model that fits in memory. Each model page picks the best app for that model on this hardware. All apps

Best LLMs for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. K2 Horizon 7BInstitute of Foundation Models Q4_K_M 7.7 GB 61.1 tok/s Runs welltight fit
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9BXiaomi Q5_K_M 7.9 GB 48.3 tok/s Runs welltight fit
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SenseNova Loop 9B PreviewSenseTime Q4_K_M 7.4 GB 56.9 tok/s Runs welltight fit
73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 9BDeepReinforce Q4_K_M 7.2 GB 57.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. TMax 9BAi2 Q4_K_M 6.7 GB 61.4 tok/s Runs great
72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 9BAlibaba Q4_K_M 7.2 GB 57.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit
71Great quality (A) · 71 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.0 9BDeepReinforce Q4_K_M 7.2 GB 57.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4BNVIDIA Q8_0 5.7 GB 70.3 tok/s Runs great
69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 12BGoogle Q3_K_M 7.5 GB 59.4 tok/s Runs welltight fit
67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nanbeige4.2 3BBOSS Zhipin (Nanbeige) Q6_K 5.9 GB 91.5 tok/s Runs great
69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4BNVIDIA Q6_K 7.7 GB 84.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Spark-X2.6 4BSparkLLM Q8_0 5.7 GB 68.1 tok/s Runs great

Best Image models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs Q8 GGUF 6.4 GB 5.8 s Runs greatencoder in RAM
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) Q4 GGUF 6.1 GB 15 s Runs wellencoder in RAM
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs Q4 GGUF 5.7 GB 35 s Runs wellencoder in RAM
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. DreamShaper XL v2 TurboLykon FP8 5.6 GB 5.7 s Runs great
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu Q4 GGUF 7.4 GB 19 s Runs welltight fit · encoder in RAM
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs FP8 5.6 GB 10 s Runs greatCPU offload

Best Video models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 2BLightricks FP8 6.1 GB 1.9 min Runs greatencoder in RAM
35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5)Shanghai AI Lab FP16 4.7 GB 1.6 min Runs great
44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 2BZhipu AI FP8 6.2 GB 4.6 min Runs wellencoder in RAM
53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3BAlibaba FP8 7.1 GB 18.3 min Slowtight fit · encoder in RAM
53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 5BZhipu AI FP8 5.9 GB 17.0 min SlowCPU offload

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI F16 2.4 GB 51 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI F16 2.4 GB 51 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FRIDA-DecisionsSber AI F16 2.4 GB 40 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GLiNER2.5 DecideFastino F16 1.7 GB 26 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 0.6BAlibaba F16 2.4 GB 51 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. mxbai-rerank-large v2Mixedbread Q8_0 2.7 GB 118 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. d1 3BLiquid AI Q8_0 4.3 GB 125 ms Runs great
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Llama Prompt Guard 2 86MMeta F16 1.2 GB 29 ms Runs great

Best LLMs by task on this hardware Open in Model Finder

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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