NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Hardware · NVIDIA

What AI models can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti run?

VRAM
12.0 GB
Usable for models
12.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
912 GB/s
FP16 compute
34.1 TFLOPS
Released
2021
Launch price
$1,199
478 / 622 LLMs run Best: Gemma 4 12B 54 / 61 Image models run Best: FLUX 3 Image Klein 14 / 43 Video models run Best: LTX-Video 2B 68 / 70 Decision models run Best: Qwen3 Reranker 4B

More about this hardware

MakerNVIDIA
TypeGraphics card
InterfacePCIe 4.0

Apps that run models well on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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 3080 Ti

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 12BGoogle Q6_K 11.7 GB 64.9 tok/s Runs welltight fit
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. K2 Horizon 7BInstitute of Foundation Models Q6_K 9.8 GB 86.3 tok/s Runs great
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9BXiaomi Q6_K 9.2 GB 82.5 tok/s Runs great
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SenseNova Loop 9B PreviewSenseTime Q6_K 9.6 GB 80.4 tok/s Runs great
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 9BDeepReinforce Q6_K 9.4 GB 80.5 tok/s Runs great
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 9BAlibaba Q6_K 9.4 GB 80.5 tok/s Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.0 9BDeepReinforce Q6_K 9.4 GB 80.5 tok/s Runs great
73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. TMax 9BAi2 Q6_K 8.8 GB 86.8 tok/s Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4BNVIDIA Q8_0 9.8 GB 127 tok/s Runs great
69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. UI-Mate 9BTencent Q6_K 9.2 GB 82.5 tok/s Runs great
69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. UI-Venus 2 9BAnt Group (inclusionAI) Q6_K 9.2 GB 82.5 tok/s Runs great
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. Gemma 4 E4BGoogle Q8_0 9.8 GB 127 tok/s Runs great

Best Image models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs Q4 GGUF 10.2 GB 13 s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) Q4 GGUF 10.1 GB 5.8 s Runs great
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs FP8 10.2 GB 1.7 s Runs great
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu Q4 GGUF 11.3 GB 7.5 s Runs welltight fit
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs Q4 GGUF 8.0 GB 4.4 s Runs greatencoder in RAM
62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Juggernaut XL v9RunDiffusion FP16 8.9 GB 8.7 s Runs great

Best Video models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 2BLightricks FP8 10.8 GB 44 s Runs welltight fit
44Fair quality (C) · 44 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. CogVideoX 2BZhipu AI FP8 11.0 GB 1.7 min Runs welltight fit
53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 5BZhipu AI FP8 9.6 GB 5.5 min Runs wellencoder in RAM
53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 5B I2VZhipu AI FP8 10.2 GB 5.5 min Runs wellencoder in RAM
55Good quality (B) · 55 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3BAlibaba FP16 8.4 GB 8.2 min Runs wellencoder in RAM

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba Q8_0 5.8 GB 95 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy Q8_0 5.8 GB 95 ms Runs great
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 2.6 GB 19 ms Runs great
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. Shieldstral 1.0 3BMistral AI F16 9.1 GB 99 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intern-Decision 4BShanghai AI Lab Q8_0 6.1 GB 59 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 2.6 GB 19 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 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. d1 3BLiquid AI F16 7.5 GB 48 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 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. mxbai-rerank-large v2Mixedbread F16 4.3 GB 42 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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