What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 run for vision?

Build: RTX 5080 + Ryzen 9 9950X + 32GB DDR5

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)
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Runs comfortably
14 models

Ranked by fit for vision use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.

#1Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run gemma4:e4b
147
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~183 ms (fast)
Model details →
#2Gemma 3 4B
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 8.4 GBHeadroom: 7.6 GBTTFT: fast
ollama run gemma3:4b
147
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.40 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~183 ms (fast)
Model details →
#3Gemma 4 E2B (Effective 2B)
2B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 5.1 GBHeadroom: 10.9 GBTTFT: instant
ollama run gemma4:e2b
294
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
2.20 GB
KV cache
1.00 GB
Activations
0.12 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~91 ms (instant)
Model details →
#4Phi-3.5 Vision
4.2B
phi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 6.5 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GBTTFT: fast
246
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
2.50 GB
KV cache
2.10 GB
Activations
0.13 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~192 ms (fast)
Model details →
#5LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B
7B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.0 GBHeadroom: 6.0 GBTTFT: fast
148
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.50 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~320 ms (fast)
Model details →
#6LLaVA-OneVision 7B
7B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.0 GBHeadroom: 6.0 GBTTFT: fast
148
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.50 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.23 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~320 ms (fast)
Model details →
#7Moondream 2
1.9B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 3.3 GBHeadroom: 12.7 GBTTFT: instant
544
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.20 GB
KV cache
0.24 GB
Activations
0.06 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~87 ms (instant)
Model details →
#8Qwen 2-VL 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.1 GBHeadroom: 5.9 GBTTFT: fast
148
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.60 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.24 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~320 ms (fast)
Model details →
#9MiniCPM-V 3 8B
8B
minicpm
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.1 GBHeadroom: 4.9 GBTTFT: fast
129
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~366 ms (fast)
Model details →
#10MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B
8B
minicpm
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.1 GBHeadroom: 4.9 GBTTFT: fast
129
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.00 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~366 ms (fast)
Model details →
#11Molmo 7B-D
8B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 9.3 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GBTTFT: fast
129
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
5.20 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.26 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~366 ms (fast)
Model details →
#12Qwen 2.5-VL 7B
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBTTFT: fast
148
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): ~320 ms (fast)
Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
17 models

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

Qwen3.5 9B
9B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 13.2 GBHeadroom: 2.8 GBTTFT: fast
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.8 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3.5:9b
115
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
6.60 GB
KV cache
4.50 GB
Activations
0.34 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~411 ms (fast)
Model details →
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
11B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.6 GBHeadroom: 0.4 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.4 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b
94
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.90 GB
KV cache
5.50 GB
Activations
0.40 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~503 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
11B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 14.1 GBHeadroom: 1.9 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.9 GB headroom left for context growth
94
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
6.50 GB
KV cache
5.50 GB
Activations
0.33 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~503 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
Gemma 4 12B
12B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.8 GBHeadroom: 0.2 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.2 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12b
86
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.60 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.39 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~549 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
Gemma 3 12B
12B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.5 GBHeadroom: 0.5 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.5 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma3:12b
86
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.30 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.37 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~549 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
Pixtral 12B
12B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.2 GBHeadroom: 0.8 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.8 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run pixtral:12b
86
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.00 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.36 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~549 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
GLM-4V 9B
13.9B
glm
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.5 GBHeadroom: 3.5 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.5 GB headroom left for context growth
74
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
1.74 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~635 ms (noticeable)
Model details →
Ministral 3 14B
14B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.1 GBHeadroom: 2.9 GBTTFT: noticeable
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.9 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run ministral-3:14b
74
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.10 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.46 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Time to first token (prefill, 512-token prompt): ~640 ms (noticeable)
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: 128 new comfortable, 112 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 8B
  • • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
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Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)

~$350

22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~960 GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 155 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 8B
  • • Gemma 4 12B
Shop this upgrade↗

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

~$1199

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: 202 new comfortable

  • • Qwen 3 0.6B
  • • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Extrapolated
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Estimated
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