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Fine-tuning a 32B model on a 6 GB laptop GPU — and the three measurements that nearly fooled me

I have one GPU: an RTX 3050 Laptop with 6 GB of VRAM , 34 GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD. It runs Windows. For the last months I've been building a small engine that trains models that don't fit, and this post is the honest result for the 32B case — including the places where I fooled myself and had to…

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  1. 2026-10-24 22:22 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Fine-tuning a 32B model on a 6 GB laptop GPU — and the three measurements that nearly fooled me

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