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Your old GPU can still run big LLMs – you just need the right tweaks

… Offloading layers lets me run massive LLMs on weak GPUs That’s how I managed to deploy Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 12GB of VRAM Although your GPU is the ideal component for providing extra processing oomph to your LLMs, it’s not the only device capable of running them. …

May 6, 2026 · Ayush Pande

LM Studio's frontend was slowing me down, so I switched to this instead

… The most notable feature is PagedAttention , which dynamically pages the KV cache in and out instead of allocating fixed GPU resources per request. vLLM also uses continuous batching to keep the GPU fully saturated rather than idle, which gets your work done faster. …

Apr 22, 2026 · Joe Rice-Jones

You don't need an expensive GPU to run a local LLM that actually works

… The issue there is that RAM is actually really slow, at least compared to VRAM on a GPU or CPU cache. The former is the best choice for running LLMs with Nvidia GPUs and tool sets leading the way. But how much do you need to spend on a GPU to comfortably run an LLM with decent results? …

Apr 29, 2026 · Rich Edmonds

After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU

… Obsession with GPUs is real GPUs are important, but not everything When you first get into self-hosting LLMs , everything revolves around the GPU; and honestly, that makes sense. …

May 6, 2026 · Yash Patel

Stop obsessing over your GPU's core clock — memory clock matters more for local LLM inference

… This is why an older high-end GPU like the RTX 3090 is better than newer cards for local AI inference . It has 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM while being powerful enough for most modern LLMs. Even the value for money of a used RTX 3090 is hard to resist, considering the prices of GPUs in today's market . …

Mar 28, 2026 · Tanveer Singh

I thought I needed a GPU for local LLMs until I tried this lean model

… Related I started self-hosting LLMs and absolutely loved it Who needs OpenAI when your home lab can do the thinking for you? …

Apr 5, 2026 · Parth Shah

My local LLM can call Claude when it's stuck, and it changed everything about my local-first setup

… Related Your old GPU can still run big LLMs – you just need the right tweaks There's a lot you can do with these models

May 17, 2026 · Anurag Singh

Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it

… Related 7 things I wish I knew when I started self-hosting LLMs I've been self-hosting LLMs for quite a while now, and these are all of the things I learned over time that I wish I knew at the start. …

Apr 28, 2026 · Samir Makwana

I use this local AI tool to turn boring documents into cool narrations

… Sign in to your XDA account I recently started integrating local LLMs with my arsenal of free and open-source tools, and they’ve been a game-changer for my productivity needs. …

May 17, 2026 · Ayush Pande

Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them

… The correct answer is GPU VRAM. While CPU speed matters for CPU-only inference, having enough VRAM to load the model onto your GPU is the single biggest factor in how fast responses generate. A GPU with 16GB VRAM can run models that would crawl on a CPU alone. …

Apr 8, 2026 · Adam Conway

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