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Make the hardware decision before the download.

Manually authored research that begins with upstream documentation, separates fact from editorial judgment, and ends with a decision you can apply to a real workflow.

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Research library · 3 guides

Start with the decision you face

Guide 01 · 12 min

ComfyUI VRAM planning

A workload-first guide to choosing 6, 8, 12, 16, or 24 GB for ComfyUI—covering offload, model precision, resolution, video, and the difference between fitting and working comfortably.

Updated 2026-07-13 · 3 upstream sources

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Guide 02 · 14 min

LoRA training hardware

Choose a realistic GPU tier and training tool for image-model LoRAs. Understand resolution, rank, optimizer state, gradient checkpointing, caching, and offload before committing to a workflow.

Updated 2026-07-13 · 3 upstream sources

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Guide 03 · 13 min

Local LLM memory planning

Estimate whether a local language model will fit by accounting for quantized weights, KV cache, context length, runtime buffers, GPU offload, and concurrent sessions.

Updated 2026-07-13 · 3 upstream sources

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What counts as evidence here

Documented: stated in official project documentation or an upstream repository. Editorial synthesis: our conclusion from those facts. Workload-dependent: a planning range that must be validated against the exact model and settings.

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