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RTX 3080 10GB vs RTX 5080 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 5080 16GB has about 26% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 760 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 26% faster on the RTX 5080 16GB. The RTX 5080 16GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 25 vs 17 of 61 models (16 vs 10 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 5080 16GB but not the RTX 3080 10GB: gpt-oss-20b (21.5B). MSRP is $699 for the RTX 3080 10GB vs $999 for the RTX 5080 16GB. 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 5080 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 30 rows vs 8. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 3080 10GBRTX 5080 16GB
VendorNVIDIANVIDIA
VRAM10 GB16 GB
Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR7
Memory bandwidth760 GB/s960 GB/s
TDP320 W360 W
MSRP (list)$699$999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 3080 10GB tok/sRTX 3080 10GB fitsRTX 5080 16GB tok/sRTX 5080 16GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8604.5 est.Yes763.6 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0483.6 est.Yes610.9 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2403.0 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5136.3 est.No440.9 est.NoRTX 5080 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5136.3 est.No440.9 est.NoRTX 5080 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5136.3 est.No440.9 est.NoRTX 5080 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2130.9 est.No423.2 est.NoRTX 5080 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0241.8 est.Yes305.5 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5209.1 est.No204.9 measuredYesRTX 3080 10GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2151.1 est.Yes190.9 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.37.267.2 est.Yes163.6 measuredYesRTX 5080 16GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8127.3 est.Yes160.8 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8127.3 est.Yes160.8 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3124.0 est.Yes156.6 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.0120.9 est.Yes152.7 est.YesRTX 5080 16GB

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 5080 16GB
Catalog models that fit17 of 6125 of 61
Largest exclusive fit—gpt-oss-20b (21.5B)

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