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I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.
I mean if that’s all that would be loaded in memory, sure.
I got Qwen 3.5:9b running on my 8GB GPU the other day, and it still has some room left over
I was talking about combined system RAM. People often overestimate what the average system specs are.
If the model dumps over to system ram it gets super slow, you ideally want it to fit completely in your VRAM