NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for local LLMs
Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated
With 11 GB of GDDR5X at 484 GB/s, the GTX 1080 Ti runs 65 catalogued models at Q4_K_M with 8K context. The largest that fits is Phi-4 (14B) (~10.9 GB), and the top pick is Ministral 3 14B.
11 GB of GDDR5X, 484 GB/s. Pascal has no tensor cores and very slow FP16, so it runs quantized models through llama.cpp but nothing that needs modern kernels. No speed calibration for Pascal: fit verdicts only.
Models that run on the GTX 1080 Ti
Q4_K_M, 8K context, 11 GB usable. Ranked by quality and speed.
| Model | Memory · marker = 11 GB | VRAM | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 14B Ministral 3 | 9.3 GB | — | |
| Gemma 4 12B (Unified) Gemma 4 | 8 GB | — | |
| Mistral NeMo 12B Mistral Family | 9.4 GB | — | |
| Bielik PL 11B v3.0 Instruct Bielik | 7.4 GB | — | |
| Llama 3.2 Vision 11B Llama 3.2 Vision | 8.5 GB | — | |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Llama 3.2 Family | 8.5 GB | — | |
| Falcon 3 10B Instruct Falcon 3 | 8.4 GB | — | |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Qwen 3.5 | 6.2 GB | — | |
| GLM-4 9B GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1 | 6.2 GB | — | |
| GLM-4.6V-Flash 9B GLM-4.6V | 6.2 GB | — | |
| EuroLLM 9B EuroLLM | 6.2 GB | — | |
| InternLM 3 8B Instruct InternLM 3 | 6.5 GB | — |
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Speed vs other GPUs
Llama 3.1 8B, Q4_K_M. Estimated ranges. How this is calculated
Specifications
Specs last updated 2026-10-07.
- Memory
- 11 GB GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 484 GB/s
- Memory bus
- 352-bit
- Architecture
- Pascal GP102
- Series
- GTX 10-series
- Board power
- 250 W
- Release year
- 2017
- Launch price
- $699
- Compute backends
- CUDA, VULKAN
- Usable for models
- 11 GB
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Frequently asked questions
Can the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti run local LLMs?
Yes. With 11 GB (11 GB usable by a model) it runs 65 of the catalogued models at Q4_K_M with 8K context; the largest is Phi-4 (14B), needing about 10.9 GB.
How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for AI inference?
This site has no speed calibration for the Pascal GP102 architecture, so it publishes fit verdicts for this card but no tokens-per-second estimate. Llama 3.3 70B does not fit: it needs about 44 GB against 11 GB usable.
What LLMs can I run on 11 GB?
Among the best that fit: Ministral 3 14B, Gemma 4 12B (Unified), Mistral NeMo 12B, Bielik PL 11B v3.0 Instruct, Llama 3.2 Vision 11B.