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34 points CHEF-KOCH | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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speedgoose ◴[28 Jun 25 20:41 UTC] No.44407998[source]▶
A maximum of 8GB vRAM in 2025 is quite limiting. You can only run the smallest large language models on those laptops.
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marssaxman ◴[28 Jun 25 23:28 UTC] No.44409041[source]▶
Your world must be so different from mine! It would never occur to me to care about such a thing.

I was content with 8GB of main RAM in my dev laptop until about a year ago.

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1. exiguus ◴[29 Jun 25 00:17 UTC] No.44409267[source]▶
The vRam for example limits you running local llms. Basically, the formula for this is: 1GB of vRAM can handle 1B parameters. There are ways to overcome this, but the easiest way for the best performance, is just to have enough vRAM.
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2. marssaxman ◴[29 Jun 25 04:06 UTC] No.44410285[source]▶
If running local LLMs were a thing I ever wanted to do, I'm sure that would be something that mattered to me.