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How much VRAM do popular LLMs really need at 4-bit and 8K context? Data from 26 models

"Will it fit on my card?" comes up constantly in local-LLM threads, and the usual answer is a rule of thumb like "about half a gigabyte per billion parameters at 4-bit." That rule is close enough for small dense models. For mixture-of-experts models, models with sliding-window attention, and long c…

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  1. 2026-11-02 03:59 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How much VRAM do popular LLMs really need at 4-bit and 8K context? Data from 26 models

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