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StarCoder 2 15B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB can run StarCoder 2 15B at 22 tok/s at Q3_K_M, though performance is acceptable. Consider a higher-end GPU for better results.

Model Size

15.5B

Device VRAM

10 GB

Bandwidth

760 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

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Performance by Quantization

Each row shows StarCoder 2 15B performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_M22 tok/s280ms✓ YesAcceptableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

15B at Q3 fits. Tight. Code completion usable.

About StarCoder 2 15B

StarCoder 2 15B (15.5B) is a coding, ai coding model. Trained on The Stack v2 with 619 programming languages. Strong fill-in-the-middle (FIM) support for code completion. BigCode's best model — competitive but surpassed by Qwen 2.5 Coder on most benchmarks.

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About NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB has 10 GB at 760 GB/s. Street price: $399.

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Source: Performance estimates based on model size and device bandwidth (2026-03-15)

Data last updated: 2026-03-01