A cheap 3000-series card is enough for local AI
ProductsNVIDIA RTX 3050 (3000-series GPU)
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Get a 3050 It's not a powerful card, but you don't need much you'll all you need is is eight, you need a 3000 series card. And you need which 3050 is like $200
Episode 168: Frog Giggin' (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:01:24 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
To run a language model locally, you don't need a powerful GPU. Dave says a roughly $200 NVIDIA 3050, or any 3000-series card, is enough.
Not in the audio. Context is running a local LLM trained on the podcast namespace. 'Eight' presumably means 8 GB of VRAM. The price is Dave's estimate at the time.