Can I Run Qwen 2.5 VL on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

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Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated July 12, 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M (5.005087499999999 GB, ~75 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

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Memory Bandwidth760 GB/s

Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB): VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 10 GB?Max context
F1617.6 GB✗ No
Q8_09.8 GB✓ Yes4K
Q6_K7.8 GB✓ Yes32K
Q5_K_M6.9 GB✓ Yes32K
Q4_K_M6 GB✓ Yes64K
Q3_K_M4.6 GB✓ Yes64K
Q2_K3.8 GB✓ Yes64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 10 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 2.5 VL Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)

Qwen 2.5 VL 7B InstructQ4_K_M · 5.005087499999999 GB · ~75 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Will Qwen 2.5 VL run on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M (5.005087499999999 GB, ~75 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

Which Qwen 2.5 VL variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (5.005087499999999 GB), estimated ~75 tokens/sec, up to 64K context.

Qwen 2.5 VL on Other GPUs

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