Running Local LLMs, CPU vs. GPU - a Quick Speed Test

Today, tools like LM Studio make it easy to find, download, and run large language models on consumer-grade hardware. A typical quantized 7B model (a model with 7 billion parameters which are squeezed into 8 bits each or even smaller) would require 4-7GB of RAM/VRAM which is something an average laptop has.

LM Studio allows you to pick whether to run the model using CPU and RAM or using GPU and VRAM. It also shows the tokens/s metric at the …

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