HardwareXDAabout 12 hours ago
GTX 1080 still useful for home lab LLM tasks
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A 10-year-old GTX 1080 remains viable for home lab server tasks despite Nvidia dropping driver support for Pascal in December 2025. The GPU handles LLM-hosting and ML-aided tasks using Mixture-of-Experts offloading, which pushes expert weights to CPU and RAM while keeping attention blocks on the GPU.
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