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Whisper Large V3 Turbo on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB runs Whisper Large V3 Turbo excellently at FP16. This is a strong pairing.

Model Size

810M

Device VRAM

10 GB

Bandwidth

760 GB/s

Quantizations Tested

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Performance by Quantization

Each row shows Whisper Large V3 Turbo performance at a different quality level on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
FP16✓ YesExcellentestimated

Notes

FP16

Distilled Whisper. 1.6GB VRAM. Real-time transcription, very fast.

About Whisper Large V3 Turbo

Whisper Large V3 Turbo (810M) is a transcription model. Distilled version of Whisper Large V3. 8x faster than the full model with minimal quality loss. The go-to for real-time transcription on local hardware. Runs comfortably on any GPU with 2GB+ VRAM.

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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: 2026-03-15