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AI Hardware & Infrastructure10 min VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth, not raw compute, dictate which 2026 models actually run locally The industry’s shift toward Mixture-of-Experts architectures and 128K context windows has turned GPU memory into a hard ceiling, forcing users to choose between aggressive quantization, slower unified memory, or NVIDIA’s $2,000+ 32GB cards. AI7 min Stop Guessing GGUF Quants: A VRAM-to-Precision Lookup Table for Local LLMs Consumer GPUs are bandwidth-bound, not precision-bound. Here’s the exact VRAM-to-quant lookup table that maximizes tokens/sec without crossing the perceptible quality threshold.