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No discrete GPU: what a Raspberry Pi 5 can do with Spark 1.7B

You want to try local AI. Does the first step have to be buying a discrete GPU? An ai-tier test offers a smaller starting point: Spark-X2.5-1.7B Q4_K_M on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. The reported output rate is 10.5 tokens/s , with 2,378 MiB peak memory including the loaded model. The test used…

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  1. 2026-11-10 06:05 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    No discrete GPU: what a Raspberry Pi 5 can do with Spark 1.7B

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