Complete guide to running GPT-2 124M (0.124B parameters) locally on your own hardware. This guide covers VRAM requirements at every quantization level (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, FP16), compatible GPUs, expected inference speed in tokens per second, and recommended Ollama settings.
GPT-2 124M is one of the most popular open-source LLMs with 5,000,000 HuggingFace downloads. Use the full GPT-2 124M model page for detailed benchmarks, quantization comparison, and run commands.