§01·spec · /gpus
RTX 3080 Ti
nvidia30 series12GB VRAM
35 open-weights AI models run on the RTX 3080 Ti — see which fit, how fast they go, and the VRAM each needs.
§02·models that run on this GPU
35 totalLLM · 6
| Model | Best speed | Min VRAM | Works | Evidence | |
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| Qwen3-8B | 115.2tokens/s | 12GB | ✓ | 2benchesrecipe | check ↗ |
| Qwen3 14B | 69.9tokens/s | 12GB | ✓ | 2benchesrecipe | check ↗ |
| gpt-oss 20B | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 10GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Nanbeige4.2 3B | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Ornith 1.0 9B | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ |
Multimodal · 6
| Model | Best speed | Min VRAM | Works | Evidence | |
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| Fara1.5-4B | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Fara1.5-9B | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Gemma 4 E4B-IT | 6GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| MiniMind-O | 4GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| MOSS-Audio | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Voxtral Mini 3B | 10GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ |
Image · 9
| Model | Best speed | Min VRAM | Works | Evidence | |
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| Anima | 7GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Chroma V48 | 11GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| ERNIE-Image-Turbo | 10GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Flux.2-Klein-4B | 8GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| HiDream-O1-Image | 10GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Juggernaut Z | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Krea 2 | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Qwen-Image | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| SenseNova U1 | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ |
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Video · 3
| Model | Best speed | Min VRAM | Works | Evidence | |
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| LightX2V | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3) | 12GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B | 8GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ |
3D · 1
TTS · 6
Music · 2
| Model | Best speed | Min VRAM | Works | Evidence | |
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| ACE-Step 1.5 XL | 8GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ | |
| Foundation-1 | 8GB | ✓ | recipe | check ↗ |
§03·tested recipes
showing 6 of 35- llmintermediate12GB+recipe
Nanbeige4.2-3B on RTX 3080 Ti: Q8_0 weights and a 65,536-token cache in 12 GB
- videoadvanced12GB+recipe
MiniMax H3 on RTX 3080 Ti: 12 GB video+audio in ComfyUI on Ampere sm_86
- multimodaladvanced12GB+recipe
Fara1.5-9B on RTX 3080 Ti: a Browser Computer-Use Agent at Q5_K_M with llama.cpp
- multimodaladvanced12GB+recipe
Fara1.5-4B on RTX 3080 Ti: Browser Computer-Use Agent at Q8_0 in 12GB with llama.cpp
- llmintermediate12GB+recipe
Ornith 1.0 9B on RTX 3080 Ti: A Local Agentic-Coding Model in 12GB via llama.cpp + OpenHands
- imageintermediate12GB+recipe
Krea 2 Turbo on RTX 3080 Ti (12GB) via ComfyUI + GGUF: 8-Step Text-to-Image