Run LLMs On A Consumer GPU
A plain-language GGUF and quantization guide backed by live catalog rows; file size and format metadata are not runtime guarantees. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/run-llms-on-consumer-gpu.
On a consumer GPU, start with a live GGUF or quantized LLM row, compare its recorded file size with your usable VRAM, and test the exact runtime and context you plan to use. GGUF is a file format and Q4/Q5/Q8 are quantization labels—not promises of quality, speed, or fit—so use each canonical artifact page and hosted-file inventory as the citable record. Representative rows: unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF, bartowski/calme-2.1-phi3.5-4b-GGUF, MaziyarPanahi/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf-GGUF, lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-2b-instruct-GGUF, MaziyarPanahi/Mistral-7B-KNUT-v0.3-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-slerp-GGUF. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/run-llms-on-consumer-gpu.
Question: How do I run open LLMs on a consumer GPU with GGUF quantization?
A plain-language GGUF and quantization guide backed by live catalog rows; file size and format metadata are not runtime guarantees.
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- unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF · transformers
- bartowski/calme-2.1-phi3.5-4b-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: bartowski/calme-2.1-phi3.5-4b-GGUF · transformers
- MaziyarPanahi/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: MaziyarPanahi/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf-GGUF · transformers
- lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-2b-instruct-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-2b-instruct-GGUF · unknown
- MaziyarPanahi/Mistral-7B-KNUT-v0.3-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-slerp-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: MaziyarPanahi/Mistral-7B-KNUT-v0.3-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-slerp-GGUF · transformers
- mradermacher/Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: mradermacher/Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated-GGUF · transformers
- mradermacher/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-i1-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: mradermacher/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-i1-GGUF · transformers
- mradermacher/qwen2.5-7b-cabs-v0.4-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: mradermacher/qwen2.5-7b-cabs-v0.4-GGUF · transformers
- mradermacher/Qwen2.5-Math-7B-i1-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: mradermacher/Qwen2.5-Math-7B-i1-GGUF · transformers
- mradermacher/DistillQwen-ThoughtY-8B-i1-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: mradermacher/DistillQwen-ThoughtY-8B-i1-GGUF · transformers
- QuantFactory/YugoGPT-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: QuantFactory/YugoGPT-GGUF · unknown
- jburnford/dyslexic-writer-qwen3-1.7b: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: jburnford/dyslexic-writer-qwen3-1.7b · unknown
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Updated 2026-09-11 from the live catalog.