GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has 11 GB of VRAM at 484 GB/s — about 10.23 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 829 of 2118 indexed models fit at 128K context with q8_0 KV.
What fits at 128K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 | IQ2_M | 4.7B | 1.45 GiB | 7.97 GiB | 10.23 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| AMD-OLMo-1B-SFT-DPO | Q6_K_L | 1.2B | 0.92 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-Song-Stream-3B-Instruct | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-Doctor-3.2-3B-Instruct | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| llama-3.2-Korean-Bllossom-3B | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B | Q4_K_L | 3.2B | 1.97 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.22 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| granite-3.1-2b-instruct | Q6_K | 2.5B | 4.10 GiB | 5.31 GiB | 10.21 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Tiger-Gemma-12B-v3 | IQ3_XXS | 12.8B | 4.86 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| AfriqueGemma-12B | I1-IQ3_XXS | 12.2B | 4.86 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-roleplay-tuned | I1-Q4_1 | 3.2B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-heretic-ablitered-uncensored | I1-Q4_1 | 3.2B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| llama-3.2-3b-instruct-bnb-4bit | Q4_1 | 3.3B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1 | I1-Q4_1 | 3.2B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Firefly-V3.2 | I1-Q4_1 | 3.2B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Firefly-V3 | I1-Q4_1 | 3.2B | 1.95 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.20 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| ARK-ASR-3B | F16 | 4.1B | 6.99 GiB | 2.39 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Gemini-3-Pro-Preview-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking | I1-IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Deepseek-v3.1-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking | I1-IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-vl-GLM-4.7-Flash-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking | I1-IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic | IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Floppa-12B-Gemma3-Uncensored | I1-IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-heretic | I1-IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated | IQ3_XS | 12.2B | 4.85 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Kepler-8B-Instruct-v2 | Q2_K | 7.6B | 5.61 GiB | 3.72 GiB | 10.19 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Darwin-4B-Chimera | F16 | 4.0B | 7.50 GiB | 1.87 GiB | 10.18 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Qwen3.6-28BMoE | I1-IQ2_XS | 28.2B | 8.04 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 10.17 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 90±37% |
| Qwen3.5-28BMoE | I1-IQ2_XS | 28.7B | 8.04 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 10.17 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 90±37% |
| orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrained | Q2_K_L | 3.8B | 1.92 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.16 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| glm-4v-9b | Q8_0 | 13.9B | 9.31 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 10.16 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agentMoE | Q2_K_S | 23.6B | 8.02 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 10.16 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 87±37% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensored | IQ4_XS | 3.6B | 1.91 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.16 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Ling-mini-2.0MoE | Q3_K_S | 16.3B | 6.71 GiB | 2.66 GiB | 10.15 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 60±37% |
| Gemma-4-12B-StyleTune | I1-Q2_K | 13.0B | 4.81 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.15 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12b-heretic-styletune-head | I1-Q2_K | 12.0B | 4.81 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.15 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| syrian-gemma-12b | I1-Q2_K | 13.0B | 4.81 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.15 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| internlm3-8b-instruct | Q5_K_L | 8.8B | 6.14 GiB | 3.19 GiB | 10.15 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-abliterated | I1-IQ4_XS | 3.6B | 1.90 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.14 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Skywork-R1V3-38B | IQ2_XS | 38.4B | 9.27 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 10.14 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Grug-12B | IQ3_XXS | 12.0B | 4.79 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.14 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12B-it-Esper4 | IQ3_XXS | 12.0B | 4.79 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.14 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12B-it | IQ3_XXS | 12.0B | 4.79 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.14 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Fara1.5-9B | Q6_K | 9.4B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| QwenPaw-Flash-9B | Q6_K | 9.4B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| grug-9b | Q6_K | 9.4B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| OmniCoder-9B | Q6_K | 9.4B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Ornith-1.0-9B | Q6_K | 9.2B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Qwen3.5-9B-Neo | Q6_K | 9.7B | 7.17 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| gemma-4-12B-it-heretic | Q3_K_S | 12.0B | 4.78 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensored | Q4_K_M | 3.2B | 1.88 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B | Q4_K_M | 3.2B | 1.88 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| OneLLM-Doey-ChatQA-V1-Llama-3.2-3B | Q4_K_M | 3.2B | 1.88 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Llama-3.2-3B-bnb-4bit | Q4_K_M | 3.3B | 1.88 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.13 GiB | 0.10 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Q6_K | 9.7B | 7.16 GiB | 2.13 GiB | 10.12 GiB | 0.11 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16 | Q5_K_L | 4.3B | 2.39 GiB | 6.91 GiB | 10.11 GiB | 0.12 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| orpheus-3b-0.1-ft | Q4_K_S | 3.8B | 1.86 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 10.11 GiB | 0.12 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | IQ2_XXS | 29.8B | 8.31 GiB | 0.91 GiB | 10.10 GiB | 0.13 GiB | 38±12.9% |
| nomic-embed-code | Q6_K_L | 7.1B | 5.53 GiB | 3.72 GiB | 10.10 GiB | 0.13 GiB | 37±12.9% |
| Qwen3.6-12B-IQ-Ultra-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-V2-Hightop | Q5_0 | 12.1B | 7.65 GiB | 1.59 GiB | 10.10 GiB | 0.13 GiB | 37±12.9% |
Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.
Measured on this card
| Workload◍ | Median | Middle 50% | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image generation | 3.19 it/s | 2.12–3.64 | 422 |
Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.
Questions people ask
- What AI models can a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti run?
- 829 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 131,072 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 at IQ2_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
- How much usable memory does a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti actually have?
- Its nameplate is 11 GB, but about 10.23 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
- Is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti fast for local AI?
- Its memory bandwidth is 484 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.