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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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Measurement

tok/s
132.2
TTFT
123 ms
VRAM used
—
RAM used
—
Power
—
Quant
Q4_K_M
Context
4K
Run date
2026-05-11
Source
owner

V36.52 rigor detail

Protocol →
Cold-start decode
131.99 tok/sTTFT 124 ms
Steady-state median
132.20 tok/sP5 131.6 · P95 132.9
Runs captured
5 · reproduced ✓
Scenario
Single-stream
Editorial notes

5-run capture · variance 1.1% · scenario single-stream · runtime ollama

Why this confidence tier?

Very high confidence

Confidence is rule-based. Every factor below contributed to the tier. We never expose a single numeric score; the tier label is auditable through this explanation alone.

Factors
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  • +Marked reproduced by editorial
How to improve this benchmark's confidence
  • Read the confidence methodology →Full editorial standards for tiering.
  • Why we don't use percentages →Tier labels — auditable, no opaque score.

Cohort intelligence

How this measurement compares to the rest of the corpus. Only comparable rows (same model + hardware first, with relaxations labelled) are used. We never average across runtimes or quant formats unless explicitly told to.

Insufficient comparison data. Insufficient cohort (0 comparable measurements). Outlier detection requires ≥5.

Same model + hardware, different runtime

1 matching row

Variance here is pure runtime / version drift. Wide spread suggests a runtime regression candidate worth investigating.

Median tok/s
118.2
Spread
118.2 – 118.2
  • 118.2 tok/srtx-5080Q4_K_M✓Editorial

Same model, different hardware

7 matching rows

What this model looks like on adjacent hardware. Drives the 'should I upgrade?' question.

Median tok/s
86.4
Spread
55.0 – 195.0
CoV
42%
  • 150.0 tok/srtx-4090Q4_K_M✓Editorial
  • 105.0 tok/srtx-3090Q4_K_M✓Editorial
  • 86.4 tok/srx-7900-xtxQ4_K_M✓Editorial
  • 78.5 tok/sapple-m4-maxMLX-4bit✓Editorial
  • 78.5 tok/sapple-m4-maxMLX-4bit✓Editorial
  • +2 more

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