Running Frontier Models on 24GB VRAM: Local Deployment Challenges Cloud
mintybadgerme · reddit · 2026-08-04
A developer expressed amazement at the rapid evolution of AI deployment over the last 20 months: it is now possible to run a Q3 quantized version of the frontier model DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on an average Intel Windows PC equipped with just 24GB of VRAM.
Although the inference speed is extremely slow, the ability to execute frontier models locally signifies a massive shift of AI processing power from expensive cloud services to consumer-grade hardware—a trend that is causing panic among major cloud providers.
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