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6gb of vram? Ornith 1.5 9b seems pretty good for a fine-tune

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I spent this evening testing Ornith 1.5 9b at Q4_K_M on my RTX 3050 6gb because I'm poor / a masochist, and I have to say this is the first model I trust enough to run as a local assistant on such crappy hardware. Using Pi Agent, it was able to run about 85% of its 128k context window without devol…

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  1. 2026-08-21 07:18 · r/LocalLLM
    6gb of vram? Ornith 1.5 9b seems pretty good for a fine-tune

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