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125B model runs on 12GB gaming GPU via Strata fork

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A developer has forked the Strata model-loading framework to enable running a 125-billion-parameter model, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next, on a single 12GB RTX 3060 gaming card. The modifications, detailed in a blog post, involve optimizing expert placement across the GPU, system RAM, and SSD, along with a learned look-ahead mechanism to predict needed experts. Initial tests show promising performance, with the model handling long prompts and maintaining high accuracy on benchmarks like MMLU-Pro, though the developer notes limitations to a single machine and Linux environment. AI

IMPACT Enables running large language models on consumer-grade hardware, potentially democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities.

RANK_REASON Developer-led optimization of an existing open-source model-loading framework for consumer hardware.

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125B model runs on 12GB gaming GPU via Strata fork

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Sumit Sodhi ·

    A 125B model at 50+ tok/s on a 12 GB gaming card: what I changed in Strata

    <p>I run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, on one RTX 3060 with 12 GB of video memory and 30 GB of RAM. Nothing leaves my PC. This post is about the fork I made to get there, what I measured, and what I have not tested.</p> <h2> Starting point:…

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