I run a 5 bit quantized Qwen 3.8 27b at home on a gaming PC with an RX 7900 XTX and RAG memory using Gemma MoE (i forget what one)running on an old 1080 ti on my Valheim server.
It takes 3-15 minutes to run depending on how many tool calls the model makes and that’s mostly memory or web scrapes since that runs on the slower hardware. I mostly just use it as a discord bot to look stuff up for me and to fetch the news.
1080 Ti? But that is 11 GB of VRAM? I know because that is my GPU and the reason I have not tried it. They all call for 12 GB VRAM. I have 64 GB RAM, so 50 GB for the model would be fine.
On the 1080ti I run gemma4:e4b to to do RAG and vision jobs. Not sure the quants and I just run it in Ollama that auto adjust the model because I’m lazy. Not 100% sure but I think mixture of experts load the parts that are needed so there easier on memory. Offloading to CPU memory or swap is a big performance hit.
I tried to run a 300b model on the main PC once, but it took half an hour to get a few words out of it. You can go past the VRAM on the card but sacrifice speed.
I run a 5 bit quantized Qwen 3.8 27b at home on a gaming PC with an RX 7900 XTX and RAG memory using Gemma MoE (i forget what one)running on an old 1080 ti on my Valheim server.
It takes 3-15 minutes to run depending on how many tool calls the model makes and that’s mostly memory or web scrapes since that runs on the slower hardware. I mostly just use it as a discord bot to look stuff up for me and to fetch the news.
1080 Ti? But that is 11 GB of VRAM? I know because that is my GPU and the reason I have not tried it. They all call for 12 GB VRAM. I have 64 GB RAM, so 50 GB for the model would be fine.
On the 1080ti I run gemma4:e4b to to do RAG and vision jobs. Not sure the quants and I just run it in Ollama that auto adjust the model because I’m lazy. Not 100% sure but I think mixture of experts load the parts that are needed so there easier on memory. Offloading to CPU memory or swap is a big performance hit.
I tried to run a 300b model on the main PC once, but it took half an hour to get a few words out of it. You can go past the VRAM on the card but sacrifice speed.