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Can a NVIDIA RTX 4070 (12GB) run AesCode 32B (text-only)?

AesCode · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 12.0 GB machine at 4K context.

No — too big for this machine.

AesCode 32B (text-only) needs more memory than the 12.0 GB on a NVIDIA RTX 4070 (12GB), even at its smallest quantization.

Pack & allocation notes: Text-only estimates exclude the vision projector and image-input runtime memory. The FP16 label uses supplied BF16 weights.

Arena Text Overall · style-controlled

UnratedNo exact match

No reviewed exact Arena match

No reviewed exact model/configuration match in the Arena Text Overall style-controlled snapshot. No family or editorial score is substituted. Local quantization quality is unmeasured.

Snapshot published 2026-10-08 · snapshot imported 2026-10-11 UTC · validated last-good data · manual refresh

Arena leaderboard dataset · Arena / lmarena-ai, Arena Leaderboard Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Selected Text Overall style-controlled rows; field names adapted, ratings unchanged. · dataset CC BY 4.0 · revision e16f90232986

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