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Can I run Laguna S 2.1 on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB)?
No. Laguna S 2.1 needs ~92.8 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.
Needs ~92.8 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~15 GB is usable.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes.
The gap is about 77.8 GB: Laguna S 2.1 needs roughly 92.8 GB at Q4_K_M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) leaves only about 15 GB usable for a model. The lightest tracked hardware that runs Laguna S 2.1 is the Apple M4 Max (128GB) at 128 GB. See Laguna S 2.1 on Apple M4 Max (128GB).
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~92.8 GB
- Usable on device
- ~15 GB
- Device memory
- 16 GB
Which quant fits
- Parameters
- 118B (MoE, 8B active)
- Q4_K_M size
- 89.44 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 119.91 GB
- Context
- 1000k
- Ollama tag
- laguna-s-2.1:latest
- Memory
- 16 GB vram
- Usable for weights
- ~15 GB
- Power draw
- ~320 W
- Best runtime
- vLLM (Linux) / Ollama (CUDA)
What you can run instead
Run Laguna S 2.1 on other hardware
FAQ
Can Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) run Laguna S 2.1?
No. Laguna S 2.1 needs ~92.8 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.
How much memory does Laguna S 2.1 need?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) does not have enough memory. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~89.44 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~92.8 GB at a 4k context. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model (118B total / 8B active), so all experts must stay in memory; memory tracks total params, not active params.
What is the best tool to run Laguna S 2.1 on Windows?
LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.
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Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.