LLaVA on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 · 24GB VRAM

✅ Runs (tight) — LLaVA 13B @ Q8_0
LLaVA 13B at Q8_0 needs ~20.1 GB (weights 13.2 GB + KV 6.3 GB + overhead 676 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~20–35 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 4K
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✓ Q8_020.1 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q5_K_M15.6 GB~25–45 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M14.3 GB~30–50 tok/s (fast)
$runlocal install llava:13b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
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LLaVA: Runs (tight)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Gemma 4

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