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How to optimize model weights distribution

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It's the first time I work with larger models (for my standards and I ran into an issue pretty quickly) I have 8GB VRAM and 16GB RAM I tried using Qwen3.8-27b-Q4_K_M on llama.cpp (16GB of weight) and it crashed when loading weights I tested a bit and tried with a smaller quant (13GB) and still cras…

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  1. 2026-09-10 04:58 · r/LocalLLM
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