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RUNLOCALAI · v38
Will it run? / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16GB (Mobile)

What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16GB (Mobile) run?

Build: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16GB (Mobile) + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)
AnyChatCodingAgentsReasoningVisionLong contextCreative

Runs comfortably
172 models

Full-VRAM resident, with room for context. No compromises.

#1all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 256VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GBTTFT: instant
25056
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.01 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~2 ms (instant)
Model details →
#2Piper
0.025B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 0VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GBTTFT: instant
22049
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.02 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3 ms (instant)
Model details →
#3Whisper Tiny
0.039B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GBTTFT: instant
14134
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.02 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~4 ms (instant)
Model details →
#4Whisper Base
0.074B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GBTTFT: instant
7449
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.04 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~8 ms (instant)
Model details →
#5Kokoro 82M
0.082B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 0VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GBTTFT: instant
6722
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.05 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~8 ms (instant)
Model details →
#6all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 384VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GBTTFT: instant
5057
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.07 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~11 ms (instant)
Model details →
#7paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
0.118B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 128VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GBTTFT: instant
4671
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.07 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~12 ms (instant)
Model details →
#8Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GBTTFT: instant
4024
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.08 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~14 ms (instant)
Model details →
#9SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.135B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GBTTFT: instant
4083
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.08 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~14 ms (instant)
Model details →
#10GTE ModernBERT Base
0.149B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GBTTFT: instant
3699
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.09 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~15 ms (instant)
Model details →
#11Whisper Small
0.244B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GBTTFT: instant
2259
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.15 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~25 ms (instant)
Model details →
#12Gemma 3 270M
0.27B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.1 GBHeadroom: 13.9 GBTTFT: instant
2042
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.16 GB
KV cache
0.14 GB
Activations
0.02 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~28 ms (instant)
Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
79 models

Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.

Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.6 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b
18
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3072 ms (slow)
Model details →
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 24.2 GBHeadroom: 11.0 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
17
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
2.15 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3277 ms (slow)
Model details →
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.3 GBHeadroom: 9.9 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~37% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:31b
18
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.72 GB
KV cache
3.88 GB
Activations
0.94 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3174 ms (slow)
Model details →
Qwen 3 32B
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.1 GBHeadroom: 9.1 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~39% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32b
17
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3277 ms (slow)
Model details →
Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 14.7 GBHeadroom: 1.3 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:8b
39
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~819 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
32B
deepseek
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.1 GBHeadroom: 9.1 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~39% of layers run on CPU
ollama run deepseek-r1:32b
17
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~3277 ms (slow)
Model details →
Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:14b
38
tok/s
Measured here
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →Benchmark evidence →
Gemma 4 26B MoE
26B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 31.3 GBHeadroom: 3.9 GBTTFT: slow
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~49% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:26b-moe
21
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
15.70 GB
KV cache
13.00 GB
Activations
0.79 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~2662 ms (slow)
Model details →

What 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: 89 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Gemma 4 31B Dense
Shop this upgrade↗

Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)

~$350

22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~512 GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 28 new comfortable

  • • Turkish Gemma 9B T1
  • • NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Japanese
  • • YTU Turkish Gemma 9B v0.1
  • • DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Shop this upgrade↗

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16GB (Mobile)

see current pricing

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: 62 new comfortable

  • • DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat
  • • DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite (16B)
  • • Turkish Gemma 9B T1
  • • YTU Turkish Gemma 9B v0.1
Shop this upgrade↗

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Won't run
top 5 popular models

Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)
1600B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)
397B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Llama 4 Scout
109B
llama
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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How to read these numbers

Measured here
Measured here - RunLocalAI ran this exact combo on owner hardware with public evidence.

Source-backed
Source-backed / community - a reproduced public source supports the speed, but it is not labeled as owner-measured.

Extrapolated
Extrapolated - predicted from a measured benchmark on similar-bandwidth hardware.

Estimated
Estimated - formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture; not a benchmark row.

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