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Home/EXAONE 3.5 7.8B Instruct/on RTX 2080 Ti 11GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2080 Ti 11GB run EXAONE 3.5 7.8B Instruct?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

84.2 tok/s

TTFT

2301 ms

Safe context

21K

Memory

8.3 GB / 11.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.8 GB
KV Cache1.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.1 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCTight fit84.2 tok/s3346 ms37K
ChatBRuns well84.2 tok/s1255 ms11K
CodingBRuns well84.2 tok/s2301 ms21K
RAGCTight fit84.2 tok/s4183 ms37K
ReasoningBRuns well84.2 tok/s2719 ms21K

Quantization options

How EXAONE 3.5 7.8B Instruct (7.800000190734863B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2080 Ti 11GB (11.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.0 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
3.8 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
4.4 GB
MediumD38
Q4_K_M
4
4.8 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
5.6 GB
HighD40
Q6_KBest for your GPU
6
6.4 GB
HighC41
Q8_0
8
8.3 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
16.0 GB
MaximumF0

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Upgrade options

Hardware that runs EXAONE 3.5 7.8B Instruct well

NVIDIARTX 5070 12GBBudget pick
B89 tok/s decode

~$549 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 3080 12GBBest value
B145.7 tok/s decode

~$799 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 3080 Ti 12GBBiggest leap
B141.8 tok/s decode

~$1,199 MSRP

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