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Running LLMs on a CPU-Only Server: My Benchmark of Gemma, Qwen, Spark, and MiniCPM

We all know the default answer when someone asks about running local LLMs: "Get a GPU." Preferably an NVIDIA one. And honestly, for fine-tuning or heavy multimodal work, that's true. But what if you just want to run inference? A chatbot for your internal tools, a quick summarizer, or a private assi…

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  1. 2026-11-06 19:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Running LLMs on a CPU-Only Server: My Benchmark of Gemma, Qwen, Spark, and MiniCPM

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