can it run
Comfortably. 10GB of memory against a 7GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.
| model file | 4.9GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 7GB working set |
| this machine | 10GB GDDR6X, 760 GB/s |
| params | 8B |
| license | llama3.1 (gated on HF) |
| price | $385 |
easy run: ollama pull llama3.1:8b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
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