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Home/Nous Hermes 1.0/on RTX 3080 Ti 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3080 Ti 12GB run Nous Hermes 1.0?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

122.9 tok/s

TTFT

1575 ms

Safe context

16K

Memory

9.3 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights5.5 GB
KV Cache1.4 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCTight fit122.9 tok/s2291 ms16K
ChatBRuns well122.9 tok/s859 ms11K
CodingBRuns well122.9 tok/s1575 ms16K
RAGCTight fit122.9 tok/s2863 ms16K
ReasoningBRuns well122.9 tok/s1861 ms16K

Quantization options

How Nous Hermes 1.0 (9B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.5 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
4.4 GB
LowD37
NVFP4
4
5.0 GB
MediumD38
Q4_K_M
4
5.5 GB
MediumD39
Q5_K_M
5
6.5 GB
HighC40
Q6_KBest for your GPU
6
7.4 GB
HighC42
Q8_0
8
9.6 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
18.5 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run nous-hermes-1.0
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download nous-hermes-1.0
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