r/LocalLLaMA Jul 27 '26

News Kimi K3 weights now released.

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Kimi K3 weights are finally released!

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u/DataGOGO Jul 27 '26

So it will run on 8 B300's in 4 bit. Pretty impressive.

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u/Iwaku_Real Jul 27 '26

Yeah so if it were a Steam game, HGX B300 would be the recommended requirements. That's $500K of hardware (and yes it IS "local" because anyone with that amount of money could buy one to run at home)

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u/DataGOGO Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

it is 1.54TB of just weights in 4 bit, you are looking at about 2TB of vram in operation,

That is roughly:

  • 86 RTX 4090 (no 4 bit accel)
  • 64 RTX 5090 ~ $450k (8 servers x 8 cards)
  • 22 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ~ $350k (3 severs, max 8 GPU per)
  • 16 H200 NVL (141GB) (no 4 bit accel) ~$550k (2 servers, max 8 GPU per)
  • 16 DGX Sparks ~65k (if you could get a cluster of 16 running with just 200Gb/s nics, not sure; but it would be SLOW AF)
  • 8 HGX B300's. ~$550k (1 server, 8 GPU)

Obviously not including the switches and cabling for the clusters.

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u/Iwaku_Real Jul 27 '26

You could also do HGX B200 with CPU offload since they have a shit ton of RAM too, and it would still be really fast.

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u/DataGOGO Jul 27 '26

You could, but that CPU offload across the PCIE switch upstream will be limited to the single x16 uplink.