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Taming idle VRAM on a multi-model local agent: sleep mode benchmark (Qwen 27B + STT + TTS + OCR)

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Following up on my earlier post testing Qwen3.8-27B on the IGX Thor workstation. Once you move past running just an LLM and try to build a full local agent stack on a single box (LLM for reasoning, STT for voice in, TTS for voice out, OCR for screen/document reading), VRAM runs out fast. If all fou…

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  1. 2026-09-11 17:11 · r/LocalLLM
    Taming idle VRAM on a multi-model local agent: sleep mode benchmark (Qwen 27B + STT + TTS + OCR)

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