Which LLM is most encyclopedic on 8GB VRAM + 64GB RAM?
Mangleus · reddit · 2026-09-22
The author asks: on low-end consumer hardware (e.g. 8GB VRAM + 64GB RAM), models like Qwen and Gemma already do impressive things — but if the goal is maximum encyclopedic knowledge with minimal slop, which LLM performs best?
Candidate directions raised:
- Is it still the 2025 gpt-oss-120b?
- Or a tiny, fast model that fits in RAM paired with RAG over local Wikipedia-style material?
The author, who loves both general knowledge and LLMs, wants to know what factors to consider and notes surprisingly little has been written about this in the community.
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