How Much VRAM for a 30B LLM? A Practical Sizing Guide

If you are asking how much VRAM for a 30B LLM, the tempting answer is “about 16 GB at 4-bit.” That answer is tidy, memorable, and unreliable. One current 30B Q4 file is 14.79 GiB; another is 23.75 GiB. Neither…








