gpus/nvidia/rtx-3080-10gb

RTX 3080 10GB

Name: RTX 3080 10GB
Brand: NVIDIA
Price: 449 USD
Availability: InStock

Released 2020-09-17 · Street $449

vram

10 GB

discrete

bandwidth

760

GB/s

models fit

top · Q6_K

power

320 W

medium

▸Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec

RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA · Ampere · sm_86

vram: 10 GB
bandwidth: 760 GB/s
tdp: 320 W
released: 2020-09-17
msrp: $699
street: ~$449

★ Sweet spot for this card

Gemma 2 9B

Q6_K · GGUF · 7.6 GB

bench35.0 · conf B

vram7.6 / 10 GB

speed100 tok/s

Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q6_Kwastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.

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▸Top 5 models on this GPU

#	model	quant	vram	tok/s	bench ↓	fit
01	Gemma 2 9B	Q6_K	7.6 GB	100	35.0	Great
02	Gemma 3 12B	Q5_K_M	8.4 GB	91	31.3	Great
03	Gemma 3 4B	FP16	8.9 GB	85	15.1	Ok
04	Gemma 2 2b	FP16	4.7 GB	162	0.0	Great
05	Meta Llama 3.1 8B	Q8_0	8.9 GB	85	0.0	Ok

Showing 5 of 5 models that fit · see full ranked list →

▸Upgrade options

★ Best value

+RTX 5090

32 GB · ~$2,399 · +$1,950 over RTX 3080 10GB

Unlocks +11 models not in current rank · top-pick bench +15.6

See RTX 5090 →

Bigger tier

+RTX 5080

16 GB · ~$1,099 · +$650 over RTX 3080 10GB

Unlocks +7 models not in current rank · top-pick bench +15.6

See RTX 5080 →

Premium tier

+RTX 5070 Ti

16 GB · ~$849 · +$400 over RTX 3080 10GB

Unlocks +7 models not in current rank · top-pick bench +15.6

See RTX 5070 Ti →

▸Also compare

RTX 5080

16 GB · NVIDIA · 145% more

RTX 5070 Ti

16 GB · NVIDIA · 89% more

RTX 5070

12 GB · NVIDIA · 33% more

RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

16 GB · NVIDIA · 0% more

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