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Home/gemma 2b/on GTX 1080 8GB

Can it run?

Can GTX 1080 8GB run gemma 2b?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

154.8 tok/s

TTFT

1251 ms

Safe context

32K

Memory

4.0 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well154.8 tok/s1820 ms64K
ChatCRuns well154.8 tok/s682 ms16K
CodingCRuns well154.8 tok/s1251 ms32K
RAGCRuns well154.8 tok/s2275 ms64K
ReasoningCRuns well154.8 tok/s1478 ms32K

Quantization options

How gemma 2b (2B params) fits at each quantization level on GTX 1080 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD33
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD34
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD35
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumC41

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