can it run
Comfortably. 40GB of memory against a 4GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.
| model file | 1.7GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 4GB working set |
| this machine | 40GB HBM2e, 1.55 TB/s |
| params | 2B |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| price | $5900 |
easy run: ollama pull moondream:1.8b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
no alternatives — every machine in the catalog can run this one.
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