Buying Hardware for Local LLMs? Check File Sizes, Not Parameter Counts
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Almost every local LLM buying guide sorts hardware by how many billions of parameters it can "handle." That framing falls apart as soon as you try to act on it. A 27B label tells you nothing about how many gigabytes actually land in memory when the model loads, and the gap between those two numbers…
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- 2026-09-17 05:53 · DEV Community — AI
Buying Hardware for Local LLMs? Check File Sizes, Not Parameter Counts