Best LLMs to run on RTX 3080 12GB
consumer 12 GB GDDR6X · 912 GB/s · 61 TFLOPS BF16 · updated 2026-10-23
Headline answer
Of 141 models in our catalog, 30 fit on a single RTX 3080 12GB at FP8, 50 at 4-bit (AWQ) and 19 at BF16 (8K context, batch 1). Largest that fits: Falcon3 3B at BF16; Yi-1.5 6B at FP8; GLM-4 9B at 4-bit (AWQ). Rental: $0.10/hr catalog estimate.
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Every model on RTX 3080 12GB
Fit band and share of VRAM per precision; N× GPUs = minimum count inside one node (tensor parallel); — = does not fit within one 8-GPU node. Speed and $/1M tokens for the highest-quality precision that fits on one GPU (BF16, else FP8, else 4-bit), single stream.
| Model | Params | BF16 | FP8 | 4-bit (AWQ) | tok/s | $ / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-4 9B | 9.0B | — | — | tight 91% | 89 4-bit | $0.31 |
| Yi-1.5 9B 4K ctx | 9.0B | — | — | tight 83% | 88 4-bit | $0.32 |
| InternLM3 8B | 8.8B | — | — | tight 88% | 90 4-bit | $0.31 |
| Ministral-3 8B | 8.5B | — | — | tight 94% | 91 4-bit | $0.30 |
| Qwen2.5-VL 7B | 8.3B | — | — | tight 87% | 94 4-bit | $0.30 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B | 8.0B | — | — | tight 90% | 95 4-bit | $0.29 |
| Granite 3.3 8B | 8.0B | — | — | tight 85% | 95 4-bit | $0.29 |
| LLaMA 3.1 8B | 8.0B | — | — | tight 90% | 95 4-bit | $0.29 |
| Ministral 8B | 8.0B | — | — | tight 92% | 95 4-bit | $0.29 |
| Qwen3 8B | 8.0B | — | — | tight 94% | 95 4-bit | $0.29 |
| Qwen 2.5 7B | 7.6B | — | — | tight 84% | 100 4-bit | $0.28 |
| Falcon3 7B | 7.5B | — | — | tight 84% | 100 4-bit | $0.28 |
| Phi-3 Small 7B | 7.4B | — | — | tight 85% | 101 4-bit | $0.28 |
| InternLM 2.5 7B | 7.0B | — | — | tight 83% | 104 4-bit | $0.27 |
| LLaMA 2 7B 4K ctx | 7.0B | — | — | tight 85% | 99 4-bit | $0.28 |
| Mistral 7B | 7.0B | — | — | good 76% | 104 4-bit | $0.27 |
| OLMo-2 7B 4K ctx | 7.0B | — | — | tight 92% | 99 4-bit | $0.28 |
| Qwen 2 7B | 7.0B | — | — | tight 82% | 106 4-bit | $0.26 |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B | 7.0B | — | — | tight 82% | 106 4-bit | $0.26 |
| StarCoder2 7B | 7.0B | — | — | good 74% | 105 4-bit | $0.26 |
| Yi-1.5 6B 4K ctx | 6.0B | — | tight 87% | optimal 69% | 71 FP8 | $0.39 |
| Qwen3-VL 4B | 4.4B | — | tight 82% | good 73% | 88 FP8 | $0.31 |
| Gemma 3 4B | 4.3B | — | good 80% | good 79% | 90 FP8 | $0.31 |
| Nemotron-Mini-4B 4K ctx | 4.0B | — | good 72% | good 75% | 95 FP8 | $0.29 |
| Qwen3 4B | 4.0B | — | good 78% | good 71% | 95 FP8 | $0.29 |
| Ministral 3B | 3.8B | — | good 72% | optimal 66% | 99 FP8 | $0.28 |
| Phi 3.5 Mini | 3.8B | — | tight 93% | good 80% | 95 FP8 | $0.29 |
| Phi-4 Mini | 3.8B | — | good 75% | good 74% | 99 FP8 | $0.28 |
| Qwen2.5-VL 3B | 3.8B | — | optimal 68% | optimal 60% | 101 FP8 | $0.28 |
| Ministral-3 3B | 3.4B | — | good 70% | optimal 66% | 107 FP8 | $0.26 |
| LLaMA 3.2 3B | 3.2B | — | optimal 69% | optimal 65% | 111 FP8 | $0.25 |
| Falcon3 3B | 3.0B | tight 90% | optimal 66% | optimal 63% | 71 BF16 | $0.39 |
| Qwen 2.5 3B | 3.0B | tight 86% | optimal 62% | optimal 57% | 71 BF16 | $0.39 |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B | 3.0B | tight 86% | optimal 62% | optimal 57% | 71 BF16 | $0.39 |
| StarCoder2 3B | 3.0B | tight 86% | optimal 62% | optimal 53% | 71 BF16 | $0.39 |
| Qwen3-VL 2B | 2.1B | good 77% | optimal 60% | optimal 59% | 91 BF16 | $0.30 |
| Granite 3.1 2B | 2.0B | good 73% | optimal 56% | optimal 51% | 96 BF16 | $0.29 |
| Qwen3 1.7B | 1.7B | good 70% | optimal 56% | optimal 57% | 107 BF16 | $0.26 |
| SmolLM2 1.7B | 1.7B | good 76% | optimal 62% | optimal 57% | 105 BF16 | $0.26 |
| StableLM 2 1.6B 4K ctx | 1.6B | optimal 67% | optimal 54% | optimal 53% | 110 BF16 | $0.25 |
| Qwen 2 1.5B | 1.5B | optimal 61% | optimal 49% | optimal 48% | 117 BF16 | $0.24 |
| Qwen 2.5 1.5B | 1.5B | optimal 61% | optimal 49% | optimal 48% | 117 BF16 | $0.24 |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B | 1.5B | optimal 61% | optimal 49% | optimal 48% | 117 BF16 | $0.24 |
| LLaMA 3.2 1B | 1.2B | optimal 57% | optimal 47% | optimal 48% | 132 BF16 | $0.21 |
| Falcon3 1B 4K ctx | 1.0B | optimal 53% | optimal 45% | optimal 47% | 148 BF16 | $0.19 |
| Gemma 3 1B | 1.0B | optimal 52% | optimal 44% | optimal 46% | 149 BF16 | $0.19 |
| Qwen3 0.6B | 0.6B | optimal 52% | optimal 47% | optimal 48% | 187 BF16 | $0.15 |
| Qwen 2 0.5B | 0.5B | optimal 43% | optimal 39% | optimal 40% | 206 BF16 | $0.13 |
| Qwen 2.5 0.5B | 0.5B | optimal 43% | optimal 39% | optimal 40% | 206 BF16 | $0.13 |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B | 0.5B | optimal 43% | optimal 39% | optimal 40% | 206 BF16 | $0.13 |
| Kimi K3 | 2800.0B (104.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V4-Pro | 1600.0B (49.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kimi K2 | 1000.0B (32.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kimi K2.5 | 1000.0B (32.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| GLM-5 744B | 744.0B (40.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| GLM-5.1 744B | 744.0B (40.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 | 671.0B (37.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1-0528 | 671.0B (37.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V3 | 671.0B (37.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V3-0324 | 671.0B (37.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | 671.0B (37.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiniMax-M1 | 456.0B (45.9B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiniMax-Text-01 | 456.0B (45.9B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| LLaMA 3.1 405B | 405.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama 4 Maverick (400B) | 400.0B (17.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | 397.0B (17.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-4 340B | 340.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiMo V2-Flash | 309.8B (15.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V4-Flash | 284.0B (13.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama-3.3-Nemotron Ultra 253B | 253.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek Coder V2 | 236.0B (21.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3 235B-A22B | 235.0B (22.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 230.0B (10.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiniMax M2.7 | 230.0B (10.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mixtral 8x22B | 141.0B (39.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| DBRX 132B | 132.0B (36.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Devstral 2 123B | 123.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mistral Large 2 123B | 123.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-3 Super 120B-A12B | 120.0B (12.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | 119.0B (11.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| GPT OSS 120B | 117.0B (5.1B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama 4 Scout (109B) | 109.0B (17.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Command R+ 104B | 104.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B | 80.0B (3.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2 72B | 72.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2.5 72B | 72.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| CodeLlama 70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| LLaMA 2 70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| LLaMA 3.1 70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| LLaMA 3.3 70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B | 70.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-H 56B Base | 56.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama-3.1-Nemotron-51B | 51.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Llama-3.3-Nemotron Super 49B | 49.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | 48.0B (3.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mixtral 8x7B | 46.7B (12.9B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Falcon 40B | 40.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Command R 35B | 35.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | 35.0B (3.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| CodeLlama 34B | 34.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Yi-1.5 34B | 34.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-Terminal-32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| OLMo-2 32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2.5 32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3 32B | 32.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-3 Nano 30B-A3B | 31.6B (3.2B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 30.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B | 30.0B (3.0B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gemma 2 27B | 27.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 27.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Devstral 24B | 24.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | 24.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Magistral Small 24B | 24.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | 24.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Codestral 22B | 22.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| GPT OSS 20B | 21.0B (3.6B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| InternLM 2.5 20B | 20.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite | 16.0B (2.4B active) | — | — | — | — | — |
| StarCoder2 15B | 16.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B | 14.8B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2.5 14B | 14.8B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3 14B | 14.8B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Phi 3 Medium | 14.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Phi-4 14B | 14.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B | 14.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| OLMo-2 13B | 13.7B | — | — | — | — | — |
| LLaMA 2 13B | 13.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gemma 3 12B | 12.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mistral Nemo 12B | 12.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 | 12.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| StableLM 2 12B | 12.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Falcon3 10B | 10.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gemma 2 9B | 9.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 | 9.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3-VL 8B | 8.8B | — | — | — | — | — |
| MiniCPM-V 4.5 | 8.7B | — | — | — | — | — |
| Falcon 7B | 7.0B | — | — | — | — | — |
Frequently asked questions
What is the largest LLM that fits on a single RTX 3080 12GB?
At 8K context and batch 1, the largest models in our catalog that fit on an RTX 3080 12GB (12 GB) are: Falcon3 3B (3B) at BF16; Yi-1.5 6B (6B) at FP8; GLM-4 9B (9B) at 4-bit (AWQ). Larger models need tensor parallelism across several GPUs or lower-precision weights.
Can an RTX 3080 12GB run LLaMA 3.3 70B?
at BF16: does not fit within one 8-GPU node; at FP8: does not fit within one 8-GPU node; at 4-bit (AWQ): does not fit within one 8-GPU node. 8K context, batch 1, vLLM — the calculator sizes other contexts and concurrency.
Can an RTX 3080 12GB serve DeepSeek R1?
at BF16: does not fit within one 8-GPU node; at FP8: does not fit within one 8-GPU node; at 4-bit (AWQ): does not fit within one 8-GPU node. 8K context, batch 1, vLLM — the calculator sizes other contexts and concurrency.
How much does it cost to rent an RTX 3080 12GB?
For on-demand rental our catalog estimate is $0.10/hr. The $/1M tokens column above uses that price.
Methodology: every cell comes from the same engine as our GPU Lookup — weights, KV cache (including MLA latent and hybrid / sliding-window layers), activations and framework overhead per model architecture, decode speed from a calibrated memory-bandwidth roofline. Reference scenario: 8K context (4K for models with a shorter native window), batch 1, vLLM, fp16 KV cache. Fit bands: optimal 50–70% of VRAM, good 70–80%, tight 80–95%. Engineering estimates, not a guarantee — validate against your serving framework before buying hardware.