… Related 8GB VRAM GPUs are a trap, even if they're cheaper than the alternative Don't sacrifice GPU longevity in favor of short-term savings Nvidia is rumored to launch new RTX 5060 series GPUs with 9GB VRAM RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti with an extra 1GB of VRAM It's hard to come by uplifting PC hardwar… …
… What it does mean, however, is that future Nvidia cards may continue to come out with 8GB and 10GB variants, despite how loudly the user base has been demanding more VRAM . While older cards like the RTX 2080 or 3070 do have 8GB VRAM, they may not benefit from the VRAM compression effect of NTC. …
… These specs are actually exciting on paper, but they're also why it's just not possible to ship these cards. …
… That's the most VRAM Nvidia has put on a consumer card, and the fastest memory bus they've ever shipped to gamers. On the small stuff, it's incredibly fast, and quantized 7B and 13B models run faster than I can read the output. Even a 30B model in 4-bit quantization sits in VRAM with room to spare. …
… Most vertical-ready cases place the mount as close to the side panel as possible to show off the RGB and, of course, the GPU itself. …
… Your GPU's VRAM might be overheating while you focus solely on the core temperature. …
… Meanwhile, local models can handle many of the day-to-day tasks that were previously only possible for the cloud to process. …
… Active parameter count and weights are easy to understand and figure out, but the moment your context window opens up, your VRAM can be totally eaten up by keys and values that are several times larger than the model you're actually running. …
… And DeltaNet is a big part of why that's possible. …