Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for RTX 3080

Compare RTX 3080 benchmark results and see which models actually earn the best completed quality scores.

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Hardware Overview

GPU-specific specifications for local LLM planning.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
VRAM
20GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for RTX 3080.

Fastest & Largest context

unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-Q8_K_XL

26B

125.2 tok/sContext 131,072 tokens

Highest token generation speed at 125.2 tok/s. Largest context that fits in 20GB VRAM, at 131,072 tokens.

Best quality

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-Q6_K_XL

27B

47.1 tok/sQuality 90.1

Highest completed quality score at 90.1.

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.