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A 70B model gets 2.74 bits per parameter on a 24 GB card before anything else loads
The weights formula is the easy part of sizing local inference. Quantization metadata, the KV cache and the runtime's own buffers decide whether a 70B model fits, and a dev.to walkthrough shows where the advertised bit width stops helping.
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Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives20
- Confidence55