Open-source calculator for "will my GPU run this LLM?"
Details
- External ID
- 49415348
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open-source calculator for "will my GPU run this LLM?"
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Aug. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- gpu compute and acceleration tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gpu vram calculator for llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a client-side calculator comparing model parameter counts and quantization against GPU VRAM bandwidth, relying entirely on known mathematical formulas and Hugging Face metadata.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #201 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
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- gpu-lexer · github · 2026-09-09 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- gputop · github · 2026-09-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Minimal LLM Post-Training Experiments on an 8GB GPU (SFT, DPO, GRPO) · hn · 2026-08-01 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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