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Got an old slow low vram GPU laying around? Might be worth it to use for Just Vision mmproj llama.cpp

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For many, Vram is precious, I see many people recommend using --no-mmproj-offload to save gpu vram but it is painfully slow. Especially if you are using it with agentic coding. If possible, add that secondary gpu just for mmproj with --mmdev CUDA1(your gpu). It will be a magnitude faster than --no-…

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  1. 2026-09-12 01:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Got an old slow low vram GPU laying around? Might be worth it to use for Just Vision mmproj llama.cpp

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