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Can the NVIDIA GTX 1080 run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context

8GB · Pascal · model file 3.1GB · medium

~29–52 tok/s

computed roofline: 320 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 3.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run WHISPER medium on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs WHISPER medium fully ($110)

rtx-5060-ti-16 — the next step up from NVIDIA GTX 1080

every model the NVIDIA GTX 1080 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA GTX 1080 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory