MiniMax H3 runs on an RTX 5090, but system RAM usage is very high
spacemidget75 · reddit · 2026-08-04
A user testing MiniMax H3 says the model is not sweating their RTX 5090 VRAM, but asks why RAM usage is so high even on a machine with 64GB of system memory.
The post is essentially a quick observation about the model’s local runtime footprint, with the attached screenshot showing GPU and RAM usage while running the model.
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