What can Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 (RTX 3080 16GB) run for agents?
Build: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 (RTX 3080 16GB) + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)
Runs comfortably78 models
Ranked by fit for agents use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBollama run hermes3:8b94tok/sEstimated
ollama run hermes3:8bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 5.2 GBollama run qwen2.5:7b61tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen2.5:7bQuant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.7 GBHeadroom: 5.3 GBollama run mistral:7b95tok/sEstimated
ollama run mistral:7bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GB94tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 11.7 GBHeadroom: 4.3 GBollama run hf.co/JetBrains/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-GGUF-Q4_K_M62tok/sEstimated
ollama run hf.co/JetBrains/Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking-GGUF-Q4_K_MQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 11.8 GBHeadroom: 4.2 GBollama run llama3.1:8b54tok/sEstimated
ollama run llama3.1:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.1 GBHeadroom: 4.9 GBollama run dolphin3:8b94tok/sEstimated
ollama run dolphin3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 8.2 GBHeadroom: 7.8 GB108tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB108tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB108tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.1 GBHeadroom: 5.9 GB108tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB108tok/sEstimated
Runs with tradeoffs94 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.9 GBHeadroom: 3.1 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5:14b54tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5:14bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 28.5 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
ollama run dolphin-mistral:24b31tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
ollama run dolphin-mistral:24bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.5 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b25tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.5 GBHeadroom: 9.7 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~37% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3-coder:30b25tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~37% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3-coder:30bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 23.9 GBHeadroom: 11.3 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b24tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32b24tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32b24tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.5 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run nemotron3:nano25tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run nemotron3:nanoWhat if you upgraded?
Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.
+32 GB system RAM
~$80–150
Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.
Unlocks: 64 new comfortable, 112 new tradeoff
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
- • Qwen 3 1.7B
- • Gemma 3 270M
Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)
~$350
22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~? GB/s to ~616 GB/s.
Unlocks: 91 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Gemma 4 12B
- • Qwen3.5 9B
- • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Add a second Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 (RTX 3080 16GB)
~$1499
Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.
Unlocks: 138 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
- • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- • Qwen3.6 27B
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Won't runtop 5 popular models
Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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