What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super run for reasoning?
Build: RTX 4080 Super + i7-14700K + 32GB DDR5
Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)
Runs comfortably78 models
Ranked by fit for reasoning use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.2 GBHeadroom: 5.8 GBTTFT: fastollama run deepseek-r1:7b113tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.2 GBHeadroom: 5.8 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run deepseek-r1:7b113
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.70 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.24 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~343 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fast99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fast
99
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.90 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~392 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fastollama run RefinedNeuro/RN_TR_R1:latest99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run RefinedNeuro/RN_TR_R1:latest99
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.90 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~392 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.7 GBHeadroom: 5.3 GBTTFT: fast99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.7 GBHeadroom: 5.3 GBTTFT: fast
99
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.70 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.24 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~392 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GBTTFT: fast88tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GBTTFT: fast
88
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~441 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBTTFT: fast113tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBTTFT: fast
113
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~343 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 8.2 GBHeadroom: 7.8 GBTTFT: fast113tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 8.2 GBHeadroom: 7.8 GBTTFT: fast
113
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~343 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBTTFT: fast113tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBTTFT: fast
113
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~343 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.2 GBHeadroom: 5.8 GBTTFT: fast102tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.2 GBHeadroom: 5.8 GBTTFT: fast
102
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.30 GB
KV cache
3.90 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~383 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fastollama run RefinedNeuro/RN_TR_R2:latest99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run RefinedNeuro/RN_TR_R2:latest99
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.90 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~392 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.9 GBHeadroom: 4.1 GBTTFT: fast88tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.9 GBHeadroom: 4.1 GBTTFT: fast
88
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.30 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.27 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~441 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GBTTFT: fastollama run brooqs/mistral-turkish-v2:latest118tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 6.3 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run brooqs/mistral-turkish-v2:latest118
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.10 GB
KV cache
3.60 GB
Activations
0.21 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~353 ms (fast)
Runs with tradeoffs94 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run phi4-reasoning:14b57tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run phi4-reasoning:14b57
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~687 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run deepseek-r1:14b57tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run deepseek-r1:14b57
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~687 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.8 GBHeadroom: 2.2 GBTTFT: fast- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.2 GB headroom left for context growth
330tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.8 GBHeadroom: 2.2 GBTTFT: fast
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.2 GB headroom left for context growth
330
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.50 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~118 ms (fast)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run phi4:14b57tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run phi4:14b57
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.40 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~687 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 23.6 GBHeadroom: 11.6 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Partial CPU offload: ~32% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
4tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 23.6 GBHeadroom: 11.6 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Partial CPU offload: ~32% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
4
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
17.10 GB
KV cache
3.88 GB
Activations
0.86 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~1520 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 28.5 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
4tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 28.5 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
4
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
14.00 GB
KV cache
12.00 GB
Activations
0.71 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~1177 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run deepseek-r1:32b3tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run deepseek-r1:32b3
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.00 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.95 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~1569 ms (noticeable)
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GBTTFT: noticeable- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwq:32b3tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.8 GBHeadroom: 9.4 GBTTFT: noticeable
- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwq:32b3
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.00 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.95 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~1569 ms (noticeable)
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: 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 ~736 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
~$1099
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.
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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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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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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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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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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
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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.Want a specific benchmark we don't have? Email Contact support and we'll prioritize it.