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Optimizing for the 8GB Barrier: Strategic Model Selection for Local AI
Community description: Navigating the 8GB Hardware Landscape in 2026 For most developers, the dream of running a...
Dev.to | Sep 17, 2026 | Andrew
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Granite 4. 1 8B: Requires ~160KB per token (needs 5GB at 32K context). Qwen3. 5-9B: Requires ~32KB per token (needs 1GB at 32K context). Gemma 4 E4B: Requires ~15KB per token (needs ~0. 5GB at 32K context).
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