NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB for local LLMs
2 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB and 82 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- not on record
- FP16 compute
- not on record
- Reports
- 2
AMD Strix Halo 128GB
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 59 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 82
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB | AMD Strix Halo 128GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | no estimateQ2_K | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 12.6 t/sQ6_K |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 33.5 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | no estimateQ2_K | 12.6 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | no estimateQ2_K | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | no estimateQ3_K_S | 9.5 t/sFP16 |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB · AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop 16GB · AMD Strix Halo 128GB