Head to head

RTX 5080 vs RTX 4070 Ti Super

Both hold 16 GB, so capacity is a wash. The RTX 5080 has more bandwidth at 960 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)	RTX 5080	tok/s	RTX 4070 Ti Super	tok/s
Llama 3.1 8B	Runs comfortably	121	Runs comfortably	77.6
Llama 3.1 70B	Won't fit	1.35	Won't fit	1.22
Llama 3.2 3B	Runs comfortably	266	Runs comfortably	172
Llama 3.2 1B	Runs comfortably	700	Runs comfortably	456
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B	Won't fit	4.91	Won't fit	4.42
Qwen3 8B	Runs comfortably	117	Runs comfortably	75.1
Qwen3 14B	Runs comfortably	68.7	Runs comfortably	43.9
Qwen3 32B	Won't fit	4.98	Won't fit	4.34
Qwen3 4B	Runs comfortably	212	Runs comfortably	137
Qwen3 30B-A3B	Won't fit	46.2	Won't fit	40.2
Qwen3 235B-A22B	Won't fit	3.36	Won't fit	3.05
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B	Won't fit	4.98	Won't fit	4.34
Qwen2.5 7B	Runs comfortably	135	Runs comfortably	86.3
Qwen2.5 72B	Won't fit	1.31	Won't fit	1.18
Gemma 3 4B	Runs comfortably	226	Runs comfortably	146
Gemma 3 12B	Runs comfortably	82.3	Runs comfortably	52.7

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