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Running a 26B LLM locally with no GPU

Via r/LocalLlama
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 · 12:28PM
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This is crazy. I've been running local LLMs on CPU only for awhile now and have great results with 12B models running on an i5-8500 and only 32GB of RAM with no GPU. But I've got a version of Gemma4 26B running really fast on the same machine which isn't even breaking a sweat. It is simply amazing w

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