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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RTX 3080 10GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3080 10GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

272.8 tok/s

TTFT

710 ms

Safe context

31K

Memory

5.2 GB / 10.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well272.8 tok/s1032 ms60K
ChatCRuns well272.8 tok/s387 ms16K
CodingCRuns well272.8 tok/s710 ms31K
RAGCRuns well272.8 tok/s1291 ms60K
ReasoningCRuns well272.8 tok/s839 ms31K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3080 10GB (10.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD33
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD33
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD34
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD35
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD36
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumC43

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for RTX 3080 10GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct