Head to head

RTX 5080 vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

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 5080tok/sRTX 4060 Ti 16GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 121 Runs comfortably 33.6
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.35 Won't fit 1.17
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 266 Runs comfortably 74.8
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 700 Runs comfortably 200
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.91 Won't fit 4.28
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 117 Runs comfortably 32.5
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 68.7 Runs comfortably 18.9
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 4.98 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 212 Runs comfortably 59.6
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 46.2 Won't fit 32.0
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.36 Won't fit 3.01
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 4.98 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 135 Runs comfortably 37.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.31 Won't fit 1.13
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 226 Runs comfortably 63.6
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 82.3 Runs comfortably 22.8

Specifications

RTX 5080RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Memory16 GB16 GB
Bandwidth960 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute112 TFLOPS44 TFLOPS
Launch price$999$499
ArchitectureBlackwellAda