ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

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ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
VRAM
16 GB
Reference MSRP
$999 Reference MSRP: NVIDIA’s launch price for the GeForce RTX 5080. This card’s own launch price wasn’t published.
Released
2025

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Specifications

MakerZOTAC
TypeGraphics card
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Video memory (VRAM)16.0 GB
Usable for AI models16.0 GB
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s
FP16 compute56.3 TFLOPS
Notes2.5-slot; boost 2640 MHz. ZOTAC's own US store page.
Product pagewww.zotacstore.com (opens in a new tab)

Cards built on the same GPU with the same memory run AI models at practically the same speed; factory overclocks and coolers change results by only a few percent.

Best LLMs for the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

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 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 12BGoogle Q6_K 11.9 GB 68.4 tok/s Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. K2 Horizon 7BInstitute of Foundation Models Q8_0 12.1 GB 66.7 tok/s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 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. MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9BXiaomi Q8_0 11.6 GB 63.8 tok/s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 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. SenseNova Loop 9B PreviewSenseTime Q8_0 12.1 GB 62.1 tok/s Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba Q3_K_M 15.5 GB 54.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 9BDeepReinforce Q8_0 11.9 GB 62.2 tok/s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba Q3_K_M 15.5 GB 54.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 9BAlibaba Q8_0 11.9 GB 62.2 tok/s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 27BAlibaba Q3_K_M 15.5 GB 54.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4BGoogle Q3_K_M 14.4 GB 174 tok/s Runs welltight fit

Best Image models for the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs Q8 GGUF 12.8 GB 8.7 s Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) Q8 GGUF 13.0 GB 3.8 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu Q8 GGUF 15.0 GB 4.9 s Runs welltight fit
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs Q8 GGUF 10.5 GB 1.5 s Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs Q8 GGUF 12.3 GB 2.9 s Runs greatencoder in RAM
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-ImageAlibaba (Tongyi) FP8 12.6 GB 20 s Runs well

Best Video models for the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

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 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 2BLightricks FP8 10.8 GB 30 s Runs great
53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3BAlibaba FP8 12.8 GB 4.8 min Runs well
53Fair quality (C) · 53 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. CogVideoX 5BZhipu AI FP8 14.3 GB 3.6 min Runs welltight fit
53Fair quality (C) · 53 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. CogVideoX 5B I2VZhipu AI FP8 14.9 GB 3.6 min Runs welltight fit
44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 2BZhipu AI FP8 11.0 GB 72 s Runs great

Best Decision models for the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba F16 9.7 GB 69 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy F16 9.7 GB 69 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 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. Qwen3 Reranker 8BAlibaba Q8_0 10.4 GB 121 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 2.8 GB 14 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 9.3 GB 67 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. Intern-Decision 4BShanghai AI Lab F16 10.5 GB 49 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 2.8 GB 14 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 7.7 GB 35 ms Runs great

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Spec sources

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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