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Nobody talks about RAM. Every local-LLM regret is a RAM problem.

Originally published at mrsaynothing.dev . Walk into any local-LLM thread and the arguments are about GPUs. VRAM benchmarks, 24 GB cards, CUDA versus ROCm, whether the 3060 is still the people's card.

  • RAM is the primary constraint for local-LLM performance, not GPUs.
  • A 32 GB RAM Ryzen desktop struggled with 7.0 GB reserved memory for llama3.1:8b.
  • Quantization levels are necessary to fit memory requirements within hardware limits.

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