Hardware Guide: What Do You Actually Need to Run Local LLMs?

02 — Hardware Guide: What Do You Actually Need? 🟢 Beginner — No matter what computer you have, there's a model that will run on it. The Most Important Thing to Know VRAM is the bottleneck, not compute. A model running on a 5-year-old RTX 3060 at Q4 quantization gives you 96% of the quality of the same model on an A100 — just slower. And "slower" for most use cases (chat, coding, document analysis) still means 20-40 tokens per second , which is faster than most people read. 💡 Analogy: Running AI