Can I Run Gemma 4 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 3 czerwca 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~6 GB of headroom running Gemma 4 12B (Unified) at Q4_K_M (10 GB, ~96 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

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Sprawdź cenę na Amazon — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Specs

VRAM	16 GB
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/s

Gemma 4 12B (Unified) on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: VRAM by quantization

Quant	VRAM needed	Fits 16 GB?	Max context
F16	28.6 GB	✗ No	—
Q8_0	17.4 GB	✗ No	—
Q6_K	14.5 GB	✓ Yes	4K
Q5_K_M	13.1 GB	✓ Yes	4K
Q4_K_M	11.9 GB	✓ Yes	8K
Q3_K_M	9.8 GB	✓ Yes	8K
Q2_K	8.6 GB	✓ Yes	8K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 16 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Gemma 4 Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Gemma 4 12B (Unified)	Q4_K_M · 10 GB · ~96 tok/s (est.)
Gemma 4 E4B	Q4 (QAT) · 5.5 GB · ~175 tok/s (est.)
Gemma 4 E2B	Q4 (QAT) · 5 GB · ~192 tok/s (est.)

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