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minus-squaremabeledo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoNot many people can afford to run their own models.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoNot the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.
minus-squaremabeledo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoConsidering that the vast majority of PCs in the world have 8GB of RAM at most, I still doubt it.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.
minus-squaremabeledo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI mean if that’s all that would be loaded in memory, sure.
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI got Qwen 3.5:9b running on my 8GB GPU the other day, and it still has some room left over
minus-squaremabeledo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI was talking about combined system RAM. People often overestimate what the average system specs are.
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoIf the model dumps over to system ram it gets super slow, you ideally want it to fit completely in your VRAM
Not many people can afford to run their own models.
Not the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.
Considering that the vast majority of PCs in the world have 8GB of RAM at most, I still doubt it.
I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.
I mean if that’s all that would be loaded in memory, sure.
I got Qwen 3.5:9b running on my 8GB GPU the other day, and it still has some room left over
I was talking about combined system RAM. People often overestimate what the average system specs are.
If the model dumps over to system ram it gets super slow, you ideally want it to fit completely in your VRAM