Nope. For 27B a 16GB video card (8 in a pinch) + 16 (32 better) GB RAM will work for reasonable context, if not screamingly fast. Any M series Macbook with 32 Gb+ (24 in a pinch). Hell, there are setups to run even larger models of a nvme drive if you have enough patience.
Smaller models like 8B are fine on a CPU, or even a phone.
I mean, if you’re really patient you can even run with CPU only as long as you have enough RAM… My ~decade old computer with DDR3 RAM gets 14 tok/s prompt processing and ~5 tok/s decode on MoE models (e.g. a Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B variant at Q6_K – my current default model). That pp tok/s is painfully slow… but it still works!
Same computer, same model but using a discrete GPU that can fit all the weights on the card – ~900 tok/s prompt processing, ~70 tok/s decode.
Nope. For 27B a 16GB video card (8 in a pinch) + 16 (32 better) GB RAM will work for reasonable context, if not screamingly fast. Any M series Macbook with 32 Gb+ (24 in a pinch). Hell, there are setups to run even larger models of a nvme drive if you have enough patience.
Smaller models like 8B are fine on a CPU, or even a phone.
I don’t think you can run 27B on 16GB without degrading its quality. You’d have to drop to lower quantization.
35B A3B runs well on 8 and 16GB GPUs.
Everything runs well if one is patient enough 😂
But yeah, with a smaller context and carefully offloading some of the layers to the CPU, it’ll run just not very fast. And definitely using Q4 quants.
I mean, if you’re really patient you can even run with CPU only as long as you have enough RAM… My ~decade old computer with DDR3 RAM gets 14 tok/s prompt processing and ~5 tok/s decode on MoE models (e.g. a Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B variant at Q6_K – my current default model). That pp tok/s is painfully slow… but it still works!
Same computer, same model but using a discrete GPU that can fit all the weights on the card – ~900 tok/s prompt processing, ~70 tok/s decode.
Yeah, down to 4bit, which works OK, but 35BA3B is much more performant. Sometimes you want the monolithic quality and damn the speed…
IQ3s perform very well these days.
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