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

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Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 12 lipca 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5.4 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M (4.5885 GB, ~80 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB) Specs

VRAM10 GB
Memory Bandwidth760 GB/s

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

QuantVRAM neededFits 10 GB?Max context
F1616.2 GB✗ No
Q8_09.1 GB✓ Yes16K
Q6_K7.3 GB✓ Yes32K
Q5_K_M6.4 GB✓ Yes64K
Q4_K_M5.6 GB✓ Yes64K
Q3_K_M4.3 GB✓ Yes64K
Q2_K3.5 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 Family Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)

Qwen 2.5 7B InstructQ4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~80 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Can I run Qwen 2.5 Family on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5.4 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M (4.5885 GB, ~80 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

What's the best Qwen 2.5 Family size for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)?

Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (4.5885 GB), estimated ~80 tokens/sec, up to 64K context.

Every Qwen 2.5 Family size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB)

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct43.5 GBDoes not fit
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B19.3 GBDoes not fit
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct8.5 GBRuns at Q3_K_M
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct4.6 GBRuns~80 tok/s

Qwen 2.5 Family on Other GPUs

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