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I'm looking to run something on a 24gb GPU for the purpose of running wild with agentic use of LLMs. Is there anything worth trying that would fit on that amount of vRAM? Or are all the open-source PC-sized LLMs laughable still?

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You can run the llama 70b based models faster than 10 tkn/s on 24gb vram. I've found that the quality of this class of LLMs is heavily swayed by your configuration and system prompting and results may vary. This Reddit post seems to have some input on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1cj4det/llama_3...

I haven't used any agent frameworks other than messing around with langchain a bit so I can't speak to how that would effect things.

You would probably get the same tokens per second with llama 3 70b if you just unplugged the 24gb GPU. For something that actually fits in 24gb of VRAM, I recommend gemma 2 27b up to q6. I use q4 and it works quite well for my needs.

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