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You don't need a GPU to run gemma-4-26B-A4B

Via r/LocalLlama
Sunday, Jun 7, 2026 · 7:24AM
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I've been running LLMs on my old potato i5-8500 with 32GB of RAM and *no GPU* for awhile now, running up to 12B dense models which run slow but perfectly useable. But this Gemma-4-26B-A4B simply flies on this CPU - only machine using Koboldcpp on Linux. That's right, an old used $150 desktop compute

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