best setup on 24GB VRAM: setup advice

[vrambandit]

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

It feels like the conversation has shifted hard toward inference and serving details lately, and honestly that makes sense once you start dealing with VRAM headroom.

Curious whether that lines up with what other people are seeing.

My use case is pretty ordinary: local chat, some document work, and occasional batch jobs.

[quietcraft]

I hit almost the same issue last night.

[mintstation99]

I hit almost the same issue last night.

A couple things I'd check first. If you're on LM Studio, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.

There are a few different conversations hiding inside this thread, so being explicit about the goal helps.

[mangoquill]

I'd approach it in a boring order. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Kimi and compare from there. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.

[mangopeak72]

My first guess would be this: On dual 3090, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.

[batchwire]

Tried to reproduce it just now. My result was mixed: first run looked bad, second run looked normal.

[deepseeked]

I don't think that's the whole story. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model.