can it run
Comfortably. 16GB of memory against a 10GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.
weights 8GB + KV cache 3.12GB at 4k context vs ~16GB usable → full. 11.1 GB needed of 16 GB usable — headroom for context
computed roofline: 960 GB/s × 0.50–0.80 efficiency window / 8.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.
| model file | 8.0GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 10GB working set |
| this machine | 16GB GDDR7 |
| params | 13B |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| price | $1400 |
easy run: ollama pull llava:13b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
→ every model the RTX 5080 (16GB) can run — full list
→ rtx-5090 — the next step up from this machine's GPU
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