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Can I run Baldur's Gate 3 with a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB?

Core speed is not what limits the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB in Baldur's Gate 3: it clears high comfortably and then meets a wall at ultra, where the game wants 12 GB of video memory against the 10 GB on this card.

The GeForce RTX 3080 10GB is the fastest card we track that still stops here in Baldur's Gate 3: everything above it on our index reaches further, and 6 slower cards land in the same place.

estimated index 30 · 10 GB · 2020
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at high

Comfortably above the recommended tier, with room for higher settings.

Headroom
25% clear on VRAM
Bottleneck
VRAM
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high cleared
  4. ultra blocked by VRAM

The weakest link is video memory: this rig brings 10 against the 12 that Baldur's Gate 3 asks for at the ultra tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Baldur's Gate 3: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Baldur's Gate 3 the processor beside a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs at high system memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at high system memory

Cheapest way up one tier

video memory: GeForce RTX 4070 Super

The GeForce RTX 3080 10GB carries 10 GB of video memory and the ultra tier needs 12 GB. Video memory is a hard limit: no amount of core speed substitutes for it.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the ultra tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

Where to look: GeForce RTX 4070 Super (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Baldur's Gate 3, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 6 14 22 26 30
CPU index 42 52 62 78 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 10 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB run Baldur's Gate 3?
Core speed is not what limits the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB in Baldur's Gate 3: it clears high comfortably and then meets a wall at ultra, where the game wants 12 GB of video memory against the 10 GB on this card. Above that the video memory is what stops it.
Is 10 GB of video memory enough for Baldur's Gate 3?
Not for every tier. Baldur's Gate 3 asks for more video memory than the 10 GB on this card at the tier above high, and video memory is a hard limit rather than something extra core speed can cover.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB runs across every game we track.