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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 8k context the first runs 44 models fully in memory, the second 62.

In short

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell has more memory for models: 32 GB against 16 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell runs 62 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 44; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs $2,100 at eBay and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell $4,650 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is $2,550 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

$2,100

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NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell

$4,650

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
GPUGeForce RTX 5080RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
Memory16 GB GDDR732 GB GDDR7
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s896 GB/s
FP16 compute113 TFLOPS54.94 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power360 W200 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload19tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload19tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 31Boffload21tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload119tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload19tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload73tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2 24B38tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload126tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload58tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffload112tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
gpt-oss 20B136tok/sMXFP4127tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload102tok/sQ6_K
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffload172tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 32Boffload19tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 12B45tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B60tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B38tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload19tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffload19tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14B44tok/sQ6_K33tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B38tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B60tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B60tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B43tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B124tok/sQ8_0116tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B59tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B56tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B70tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B244tok/sQ8_0227tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B78tok/sQ6_K72tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B942tok/sQ8_0879tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B639tok/sQ8_0596tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B383tok/sQ5_K_M357tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B304tok/sQ8_0284tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B280tok/sQ8_0261tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B196tok/sQ8_0183tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B176tok/sQ8_0164tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B176tok/sQ8_0164tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B175tok/smlx-4bit163tok/smlx-4bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506164tok/sQ4_K_M99tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b139tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512132tok/sQ8_0123tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b130tok/sQ8_0122tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B128tok/smlx-6bit95tok/smlx-8bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking127tok/sQ8_0118tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 2609121tok/sQ8_0112tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B70tok/sQ8_065tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041469tok/smlx-5bit65tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B62tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251259tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash58tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking49tok/smlx-8bit46tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B43tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 250738tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250638tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250738tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250938tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251238tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffload119tok/sQ8_0
Muse Glimmer 30Boffload17tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 30boffload21tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffload26tok/smlx-4bit
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell?
At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell runs 62 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 44; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs $2,100 at eBay and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell $4,650 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is $2,550 cheaper.

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