Can Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB run Llama, Qwen & DeepSeek? 220 models that fit

220 of the 396 models in the Spanvero catalog fit Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB's 10 GB VRAM (at a sensible quant, 16k context). For each: run it locally ($0 compute + electricity), rent an equivalent GPU ($0 markup, as of 2026-07-02), or pay per-token via your own API key (as of 2026-07-06).

Three honest ways to run each model on Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB

• Run it locally: $0 in compute — you pay only electricity (~320 W under load on this card). Local is real money, never a fake "$0".
• Rent an equivalent GPU: from a $0-markup vendor rate (as of 2026-07-02) — you rent on your own account and pay the vendor directly; we never resell compute.
• Skip the box: run the same model through your own API key, paying per million tokens (prices as of 2026-07-06).

What fits Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB (10 GB VRAM)

• 220 of the 396 notable models in the Spanvero catalog fit Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB at a sensible quant (context capped at 16k for the estimate). Most capable first:
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking (JetBrains, 12.1B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.3107/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Base (JetBrains, 12.1B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.3107/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• pythia 12b (EleutherAI, 12B) — needs ~10 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.3087/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Falcon3-10B Instruct (TII, 10B) — needs ~10 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2668/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.18/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gemma 2 9b it (unsloth, 9.2B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2496/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Gemma 2 9B Instruct (Google, 9B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2452/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.06/1M via your own API key (last-known).
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 (nvidia, 8.9B) — needs ~10 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.243/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Japanese (nvidia, 8.9B) — needs ~10 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.243/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• granite 4.1 8b (ibm-granite, 8.8B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2409/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.08/1M via your own API key.
• internlm3 8b instruct (internlm, 8.8B) — needs ~8 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2409/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• llm jp 4 8b thinking (llm-jp, 8.6B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2365/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B Base (nvidia, 8.5B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2343/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B (nvidia, 8.5B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2343/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• GDN primed HQwen3 8B Instruct (amazon, 8.5B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2343/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LFM2.5 8B A1B (LiquidAI, 8.5B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2343/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LFM2 8B A1B (LiquidAI, 8.3B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2298/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Qwen3-8B (Alibaba, 8.2B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2276/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.29/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen3 8B Base (Qwen, 8.2B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2276/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B (deepseek-ai, 8.2B) — needs ~9 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2276/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• MiniCPM4.1 8B (openbmb, 8.2B) — needs ~7 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.2276/1M in electricity, rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.06/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).

• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking — full cost breakdown
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Base — full cost breakdown
• pythia 12b — full cost breakdown
• Falcon3-10B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• gemma 2 9b it — full cost breakdown
• Gemma 2 9B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 — full cost breakdown
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Japanese — full cost breakdown
• granite 4.1 8b — full cost breakdown
• internlm3 8b instruct — full cost breakdown
• llm jp 4 8b thinking — full cost breakdown
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B Base — full cost breakdown
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B — full cost breakdown
• GDN primed HQwen3 8B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• LFM2.5 8B A1B — full cost breakdown
• LFM2 8B A1B — full cost breakdown
• Qwen3-8B — full cost breakdown
• Qwen3 8B Base — full cost breakdown
• DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B — full cost breakdown
• MiniCPM4.1 8B — full cost breakdown

The honest cost of owning Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB

• The full ownership math for this card — its dated street price, 3-year amortization, electricity, and the own-vs-rent break-evens — lives on the dedicated NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB GPU page (linked under "Keep exploring" below), so those numbers are published once, in one place.

Too big for Used NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB — rent or use an API instead

• These need more than the 10 GB VRAM on this card. Closest first — you can still run them on a rented GPU ($0 markup) or via your own API key:
• DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite Instruct (DeepSeek, 15.7B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.23/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• HarmBench Llama 2 13b cls (cais, 13B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gemma 2 9b (google, 9.2B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gemma 7b (google, 8.5B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.17/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• falcon 7b (tiiuae, 7.2B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• falcon 7b instruct (tiiuae, 7.2B) — needs ~11 GB; rent 2× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.12/hr, or ~$0.16/1M via your own API key (size estimate).

Keep exploring

• NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB — rent rates, own-vs-rent math & what fits
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• All GPUs — rental rates compared
• Free cost calculator — local vs rent vs API
• All models — the real cost to run each
• How we stay honest

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