yellowbadbeast

AFAIK there isn’t a sparse 35B variant of 3.8, and I would not recommend running a dense 27B model on dual-channel DDR4 unless you are exceptionally patient.

Any TPU you can buy is going to be essentially useless for either image diffusion or LLMs. The onboard RAM is both far too small and far too slow (LLM text generation speed relies on RAM speed first and foremost, and both LLMs and image models tend to be, you know, big), and USB isn’t nearly fast enough to help with that, Not to mention that software support is pretty much nonexistent. You’d be better off upgrading the GPU to a 3060ti 12gb or something.

P.S. A word of advice, consider using something other than Ollama. Llama.cpp in router mode or llama-swap support pretty much all of the functionality that Ollama does without being crap. Ik_llama.cpp is also nice if you have a CPU/Nvidia setup.