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11 GB VRAMhighReviewed November 2026

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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Pascal halo card. 11 GB GDDR5X at 484 GB/s — outperforms many newer mid-range cards on raw bandwidth. 13B Q4 fits comfortably. The legendary 'still relevant' card for AI on a budget.

Released 2017·Launch MSRP $699 (2017) · Now sells well below its launch price on the used market.·484 GB/s memory bandwidth
RUNLOCALAI SCORE
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327/ 1000
CC-tier
Estimated
Throughput
168/ 500
VRAM-fit
80/ 200
Ecosystem
200/ 200
Efficiency
19/ 100

Sub-scores sum to 467 / 1000. Headline = 467 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 327. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →

Extrapolated from 484 GB/s bandwidth — 58.1 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Best for 7B; 14B is tight — coding agent feels deliberate; vision models supported.

7B chat✓
Comfortable
14B chat~
Tight
32B chat✗
Doesn't fit
70B chat✗
Doesn't fit
Coding agent~
Tight
Vision (≤8B VLM)✓
Comfortable
Long context (32K)~
Tight
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

Pascal halo card. 11 GB GDDR5X at 484 GB/s — outperforms many newer mid-range cards on raw bandwidth. 13B Q4 fits comfortably. The legendary 'still relevant' card for AI on a budget.

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

VRAM11 GB
Power draw (peak)250 W
Released2017
MSRP$699
Backends
CUDA
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with usable context.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Kokoro 82M
0.082B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
BGE Large EN v1.5
0.335B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Qwen 3 0.6B
0.6B · qwen · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
XTTS v2
0.46B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
BGE Reranker v2 M3
0.57B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti run?

With 11GB VRAM, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti runs models up to 14B in 4-bit, or 7B at higher quantizations. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

How much does NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cost?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti launched at an MSRP of $699 in 2017. Now sells well below its launch price on the used market. Retail prices change often, so check the current price with a retailer before you buy.

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Reviewed by RunLocalAI Editorial. See our editorial policy for how we research and verify hardware specifications.