NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada vs NVIDIA RTX 5080 for local LLMs
0 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada and 15 on the NVIDIA RTX 5080
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. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 2.7x higher on the NVIDIA RTX 5080 (360 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada, 960 on the NVIDIA RTX 5080). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada
- Memory
- 20GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 106.9 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
NVIDIA RTX 5080
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 225 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 15
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 4000 Ada | NVIDIA RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 16.8 t/sQ3_K_M | 62.6 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 17.0 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 66.6 t/sQ3_K_S | 207.0 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 16.8 t/sQ3_K_M | 62.6 t/sQ2_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 37.7 t/sQ4_K_S | 139.6 t/sQ3_K_S |
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