Llama 3.2 Vision on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM

✅ Runs (tight) — Llama 3.2 Vision 11B @ Q8_0
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B at Q8_0 needs ~12.3 GB (weights 10.6 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 541 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 14.4 GB usable VRAM — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~30–50 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 2K · runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✓ Q8_012.3 GB~30–50 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M7.8 GB~55–90 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install llama3.2-vision:11b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
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Llama 3.2 Vision: Runs (tight)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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These share Llama 3.2 Vision's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM too:

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Llama 3.2 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd ❌ Won't fit
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Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)

…and 8 more — see the Llama 3.2 Vision page.

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