Total param count decides how much vram you need to run it. Active param count decides how fast it runs. My 10 year old GPU can load quantized 35B or 27B, but i

Total param count decides how much vram you need to run it. Active param count decides how fast it runs. My 10 year old GPU can load quantized 35B or 27B, but it can’t process 27B parameters per token faster than 2-4tok/s, while it can do A3B at >40tok/s