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can it run

Can the ABS AI Workstation (3x R9700, 96GB) run llama3.1 8B?

YES

Comfortably. 32GB of memory against a 7GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

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Specs

model file4.9GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory7GB working set
this machine3x 32GB = 96GB VRAM + 128GB ECC DDR5
params8B
licensellama3.1 (gated on HF)
price$14199

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull llama3.1:8b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

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