AIMarkTechPostabout 20 hours ago
Best Local LLMs for a 24GB GPU in 2026
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A single 24GB GPU runs modern 20B, 35B models, not the biggest 70B quant. Qwen3.6-27B is the strongest default at ~16GB. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B is the tightest fit at ~18, 20GB. MoE memory tracks total parameters, so every expert stays resident. Q4_K_M is the standard quantization balance.
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