4GB VRAM local LLM users: is there anything faster than llama.cpp?
your_real_Fathe_ · reddit · 2026-10-10
A user running local models on a 4GB VRAM RTX card asks whether llama.cpp has a better alternative that squeezes out higher tokens/sec without heavy Python/PyTorch dependencies.
After extensive research they found nothing suitable: most options exhaust the limited VRAM before the model even loads, target unquantized models or outdated two-year-old ones, aim at different device classes like MNN, or are papers with no real implementation.
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