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Qwen3.5-9B's 262K context window would consume the whole 8GB budget in KV cache
A dev.to guide to running local models on 8GB prices the KV cache between 15KB and 160KB per token depending on architecture. At 32K tokens held, that spread is the difference between 0.5GB and 5GB of a fixed budget.
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