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The GTX 1080 Ti has 11 GB and Pascal CC 6.1, below the current vLLM floor; validate legacy builds and rendering independently.
A specific Pascal board example
The GTX 1080 Ti has 11 GB GDDR5X. The table uses an official MSI Founders Edition specification listing 250 W. It establishes that implementation rather than every AIB design. Capacity belongs to one GPU and must not be rounded to 12 GB for admission. Pascal has no Tensor or RTX RT hardware. Ti does not mean modern instructions or universal LLM support. Preserve device identity, driver and baseline VRAM for an existing card. Verify dimensions, connectors and cooling against the board and chassis before transferring a saved job from another host.
| Official variant | Memory per GPU | Memory type | Board power | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — MSI Founders Edition 11 GB | 11 GB | GDDR5X | 250 W | Specification |
Separate current vLLM from legacy CUDA
NVIDIA lists CC 6.1, below the current vLLM minimum of 7.5, so CUDA backend support there is not claimed. An alternative llama.cpp build pins commit, architecture target and observed GPU operations. CUDA 13 removes pre-7.5 offline compilation, requiring a compatible legacy route such as suitable CUDA 12 and a supported driver. This promises no arbitrary current quantization kernel. Test bounded request, context, output and offload on the Ti. Preserve CPU/RAM involvement; a successful load does not replace a correct answer and completion of the actual GPU path. Keep execution evidence separate from capacity.
Cycles has another requirement set
Blender 5.2 specifies CUDA CC 5.0 and OptiX conditions including driver 575 or newer. Pascal meets the general hardware floor but needs a supported build/driver combination and detection. No RTX RT cores does not automatically prohibit every OptiX scenario. Preserve scene and assets on the 1080 Ti, then check backend, image and memory. Separate host involvement from local fit. Another renderer needs its own requirements. Missing files and unsupported materials do not prove faulty VRAM; classify causes using original logs rather than a generic failed message. Preserve the input project alongside the result.
Keep build restrictions visible
The manifest retains binary, toolkit and driver versions with input hashes. If a new binary lacks device code, 11 GB does not enable that operation. Increasing queues or shrinking a scene until the symptom disappears is not a diagnosis. Establish the software path before examining capacity. Account for host RAM and CPU during offload. The 250 W figure concerns the selected MSI board rather than complete task energy. Normal diagnosis requires neither forced clocks nor disabled protections. Accept updates through the saved bounded corpus with clear stopping conditions and original errors. Keep environment changes attributable to a specific revision.
Preserve existing Ti acceptance evidence
The package contains AIB source, inventory, LLM and scene manifests, architecture target and observed statuses. Device code failure points to build, out-of-memory to budget, and missing assets to project packaging. CPU-only execution receives another status. The conclusion defines a useful GTX 1080 Ti role in one legacy environment. It promises neither current vLLM nor constant TPS, arbitrary checkpoint fit or automatic pooled capacity. This supports assessing existing 11 GB without replacing architecture with a Ti suffix or converting historical gaming claims into modern inference and server rendering evidence. Keep remaining limitations beside accepted workloads.
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