Should You Buy the nVidia RTX 3080 for Local AI? Gemma 4?

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With the recent release of google's incredible Gemma 4 model and turbo quant, more gpu's than ever with less than 24gb of vram, are now able to do things that would've required much larger and expensive gpus. This means that GPUs like the nVidia RTX 3080 are now a great affordable option for local AI enthusiasts to run multi-modal modals, vibe coding and agentic assistant models (open claw / hermes) from home. Tell us what you think in the comments below! Rent an nVidia GPU on Vast AI (15% OFF) https://cloud.vast.ai/?ref_id=74601 Chapters 🎬: 0:00 - intro 0:58 - big deal for nvidia 2:01 - specs 2:58 - gemma 4 llama.cpp 4:38 - gemma 4 e2b 6:03 - gemma 4 e4b 7:47 - pricing on ebay 8:25 - 20gb 3080 from china 9:40 - using gemma 4 11:18 - conclusion

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