NVIDIA · consumer

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has 11 GB of VRAM at 484 GB/s — about 10.23 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1670 of 2118 indexed models fit at 8K context with f16 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
11 GB
GDDR5X
Bandwidth
484 GB/s
352-bit bus
Tensor FP16
dense
TDP
250 W
$699 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1436vision language 132video 14audio tts 21image 2audio asr 39embedding 26

What fits at 8K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1670 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Forsaken-Void-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Silver-Siren-ST-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
KrakenSakura-Maelstrom-12B-v1Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-12B-Runeweaver-RP-RUI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Impish_Bloodmoon_12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Wayfarer-2-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Wayfarer-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Muse-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Base-2407Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
writing-roleplay-20k-context-nemo-12b-v1.0Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12bI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
mini-magnum-12b-v1.1Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Lumimaid-v0.2-12BQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-Violet-Lotus-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1-Heretic-UncensoredI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Heretica-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Violet_Twilight-v0.2Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Lumimaid-Magnum-v4-12BQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
arcee-fusion-lumaid-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-NeMo-12B-AbliteratedI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1-absolute-heresyI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1I1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Gutenberg-Doppel-12BQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
magnum-v4-12bQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-12b-RP-InkQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-12B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.1Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-2407-12B-Thinking-Claude-Gemini-GPT5.2-Uncensored-HERETICI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12bI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Inst-2407-12B-Thinking-Uncensored-HERETIC-HI-Claude-OpusI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-12B-Thinking-M-Claude-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mordant-12B-ThinkI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Riverfish-Rocinante-12B-SFT-DPOI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-Violet-Lotus-12B-HereticI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Himeyuri-Magnum-12B-HereticMergeI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Kinggaroo-12b-v1I1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Magnum-Picaro-0.7-v2-12bI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
magnum-v2.5-12b-ktoI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Mistral-Nemo-Prism-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Nera_Noctis-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
pixtral-12bQ5_K_M12.7B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Chronos-Gold-12B-1.0I1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
patricide-12B-Unslop-MellI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9I1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Crimson_Dawn-v0.2Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
magnum-v2-12bI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Peaceful-Days-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
NemoMix-Unleashed-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Blissful-Days-12BI1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Rocinante-12B-v1.1I1-Q5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
BlackSheep-RP-12BQ5_K_M12.2B8.13 GiB1.25 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Hubble-4B-v1F164.5B8.41 GiB1.00 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Aura-4BF164.5B8.41 GiB1.00 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
magnum-v2-4bF164.5B8.41 GiB1.00 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Impish_LLAMA_4BBF164.5B8.41 GiB1.00 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-BaseF164.5B8.41 GiB1.00 GiB10.23 GiB0.00 GiB37±12.9%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Measured on this card

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation3.19 it/s2.123.64422
Benchmarked· n=422

Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti run?
1670 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 8,192 context with f16 KV cache, the largest being Forsaken-Void-12B at I1-Q5_K_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti actually have?
Its nameplate is 11 GB, but about 10.23 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 484 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.