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VRAM Spec: A Field Guide to Running AI Models on Your GPU

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A browser-based reference for estimating the memory requirements of LLMs, image models, and video models.

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The homepage organizes 20 entries into 15 LLM models and five image or video models, pairing each with a minimum VRAM estimate and example hardware. The scale is easy to grasp: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B is listed at 2.5 GB, while the 671B DeepSeek-R1 entry reaches 380 GB and names eight H100s or a Mac Studio M2 Ultra with CPU offload. Wan 2.1 is split into 1.3B and 14B variants.

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