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What's the best local model you've found for 8 GB of VRAM?

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I'm curious what other people are using for local LLM coding / agentic coding with only 8 GB of VRAM . My current setup is: Intel Core i7-11800H RTX 3070 Laptop , 8 GB VRAM 32 GB DDR4 RAM openSUSE Tumbleweed / KDE Unsloth Studio pi.dev as the coding agent After testing quite a few different models…

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    What's the best local model you've found for 8 GB of VRAM?

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