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RTX 3080 10GB vs RTX 4070 12GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 3080 10GB has about 51% more memory bandwidth (760 vs 504 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 51% faster on the RTX 3080 10GB. The RTX 4070 12GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 18 vs 17 of 61 models (12 vs 10 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 4070 12GB but not the RTX 3080 10GB: gemma-3-12b-it (12.2B). MSRP is $699 for the RTX 3080 10GB vs $599 for the RTX 4070 12GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (38 shared models), the RTX 3080 10GB posts the higher tok/s in 37 rows vs 1. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 3080 10GBRTX 4070 12GB
VendorNVIDIANVIDIA
VRAM10 GB12 GB
Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6X
Memory bandwidth760 GB/s504 GB/s
TDP320 W200 W
MSRP (list)$699$599
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MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 3080 10GB tok/sRTX 3080 10GB fitsRTX 4070 12GB tok/sRTX 4070 12GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8604.5 est.Yes400.9 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0483.6 est.Yes320.7 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2403.0 est.Yes267.3 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0241.8 est.Yes160.4 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5209.1 est.No199.6 est.NoRTX 3080 10GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2151.1 est.Yes160.7 measuredYesRTX 4070 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5136.3 est.No130.2 est.NoRTX 3080 10GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5136.3 est.No130.2 est.NoRTX 3080 10GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5136.3 est.No130.2 est.NoRTX 3080 10GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2130.9 est.No125.0 est.NoRTX 3080 10GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8127.3 est.Yes84.4 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8127.3 est.Yes84.4 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3124.0 est.Yes82.2 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.0120.9 est.Yes80.2 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.0120.9 est.Yes80.2 est.YesRTX 3080 10GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

RTX 3080 10GBRTX 4070 12GB
Catalog models that fit17 of 6118 of 61
Largest exclusive fit—gemma-3-12b-it (12.2B)

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