You don’t need a high-end build for local LLMs; a single 16GB GPU with 24GB DDR5 supports Qwen 3.8 27b at 262k context and kv-cache streaming with modest performance.
Read the original at www.reddit.com→Been seeing a lot of people with their 64gb of ddr5 4x3090 or whatever strata builds and it’s been sorta depressing knowing i cant afford that but i finally finished my setup today so here we go, Qwen 3.8 27b at 262k...
Original headline: "You don’t need that expensive of a build for local llms."
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- Oct 18, 02:46 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source You don’t need that expensive of a build for local llms.