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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Considering that the vast majority of PCs in the world have 8GB of RAM at most, I still doubt it.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean if that’s all that would be loaded in memory, sure.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I got Qwen 3.5:9b running on my 8GB GPU the other day, and it still has some room left over

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I was talking about combined system RAM. People often overestimate what the average system specs are.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

If the model dumps over to system ram it gets super slow, you ideally want it to fit completely in your VRAM