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Home/DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B/on RTX 3080 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3080 12GB run DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

142.0 tok/s

TTFT

1363 ms

Safe context

23K

Memory

8.5 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well142.0 tok/s1983 ms39K
ChatBRuns well142.0 tok/s743 ms12K
CodingBRuns well142.0 tok/s1363 ms23K
RAGBRuns well142.0 tok/s2478 ms39K
ReasoningBRuns well142.0 tok/s1611 ms23K

Quantization options

How DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B (8B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3080 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
MediumD37
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD40
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighC41
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
8.6 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
16.4 GB
MaximumF0

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