How Fast Can DeepSeek Run on 8GB VRAM?

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Rethinking local LLM inference as a full resource path across disk, RAM, PCIe, VRAM and compute—and why residency is only one part of the problem.

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After realizing that expert residency alone wasn’t the full performance wall, I started looking at local LLM inference as a complete resource path across disk, RAM, PCIe, VRAM and compute. Recent work like DwarfStar4 and FreeToken is converging on parts of the same problem. My angle is to measure the real bottleneck first, then decide what to optimize.