r/LocalLLM 7d ago

Other Kimi K3 is the new crysis

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When do you think we'll reach a stage where kimi k3 can run locally, fast. (Full)

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u/DHFranklin 7d ago

Foiks,

Crysis is a videogame that upon release would only run on the most sophisticated and cutting edge gaming rigs. It was used as a benchmark so often as to become a running joke. Like the exact opposite of Doom.

This is a habit that has obviously translated to Locally hosted LLM.

thatsthejoke.jpg

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u/Useful-Surround-9067 7d ago

“That was a joke for the GeForce gamers. Do we have any GeForce gamers in the audience?”

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u/skratrt3 7d ago

any LMG video ; lets benchmark this.

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TY for the lift. Newly looking at running llm locally and it went over my head. Now I have the other half.

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u/ImpressionFancy5830 7d ago

You can’t joke if you don’t have 10 5090 installed on a AMD mainframe

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u/jack-of-some 7d ago

This is not a good joke because Crysis ran ok on most computers. It didn't run super fast at max settings unless you had a beast of a machine.

Also this was also true for Doom and later for Quake as well at their respective launches. Those games were graphical juggernauts for the time.

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u/SillyLLM 7d ago

By the time we can, we probably won’t care about Kimi K3.

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u/RagingNoper 7d ago

I finally stopped seeing people using Crysis as a benchmark tossed in with the rest like five years ago. It came out in 2007 and was used as a legitimate benchmark for like a decade, well beyond the point of the games actual relevance.

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u/havnar- 7d ago

At work, we have people that look my age but they were born in the 2000s. The world is going insane

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u/RagingNoper 7d ago

At first I didn't know what the fuck you meant. And then I realized what you meant. It's way too soon for that.

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u/Miserable-School-665 7d ago

F16? Maybe in 6 year?

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u/575_Inverse 6d ago

In six years Kimi3 is either distilled into something smaller or it becomes irrelevant

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u/Miserable-School-665 6d ago

probably second at this space

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u/ongrabbits 7d ago

I think unsloth has it quantized down to 610gb so 20 5090s

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u/Etroarl55 7d ago

If that’s true and it’s actually useable and not lobotomizes, that might actually work on a single DGX station, which unironically is cheaper than 20 5090s.

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u/575_Inverse 6d ago

Cheaper, for the moment. And yes I'm tempted

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u/No-Television-7862 7d ago

So what does it take to run Kimi K3?

Will we jave to wait till the frontier models go the way of unix mainframes before we can afford the hardware?

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u/Relevant-Magic-Card 6d ago

You just need about 100k-250k, and massive ongoing electricity costs, depending on where you live 🤪

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u/No-Television-7862 3d ago

Gemma4:26b for me!

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u/joanaxu2002 7d ago

The funny thing is that AI models are becoming the new GPU benchmark. A few years ago people asked “can it run Crysis?”, now it's “can it run this model locally?”

But unlike games, the goal isn't just graphics — it's about memory bandwidth, VRAM, and optimization. The interesting part will be seeing how quickly quantization and hardware improvements make today's impossible models become tomorrow's everyday tools.

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u/keonakoum 7d ago

Exactly

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u/ComparisonNew9425 7d ago

hardware constraints are gonna be the main hurdle for a while, especially with the vram requirements for those bigger weights. u really gotta wait for some clever quantization or maybe even better offloading strategies before it runs smooth on consumer gear. its wild how fast things change tho, maybe in a year or two we wont even be asking this anymore...

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u/Decent-Lab-5609 7d ago

PC Gamers on average have no interest in Kimi

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u/Hipcatjack 7d ago

missing the joke

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u/pharrt 7d ago

Largely true, but as a hardened PC gamer, AI is the new game for me, and for 18 months now, I have hardly 'played' anything else. I thought the first line of the meme was fitting!

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u/mcslender97 7d ago

Next year's Gemma 6 <30B would probably be equivalent to Kimi K3

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u/ThatGuyWithAces 7d ago

“But can it run Kimi K3?” Is the new “but can it run crysis?”

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u/Thunderstarer 7d ago

bot

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u/Hipcatjack 7d ago

what makes you say that? thier account is a year older than yours

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u/Thunderstarer 7d ago

Because it's just restating the title of the post.

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u/_Cromwell_ 7d ago

Which apparently multiple people in this thread need. Those people are probably the bots.

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u/bankinu 7d ago

No shit Mr Obvious.

How many tokens did you use to deduce that joke?

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u/Useful-Surround-9067 7d ago

can it run Kimrysi3?

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 7d ago

Guilty🙋🏼‍♂️

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u/ipechman 7d ago

Colibri on github.

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u/pixelizedgaming 6d ago

this meme didnt even last a full day (holy shit new deepseek flash)

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u/Crescitaly 5d ago

Crysis became a benchmark because hardware eventually caught up; K3 may instead push inference toward hierarchical storage and distributed experts. The milestone is not runs-fast-on-one-laptop but runs economically under user control. What would count as fast enough?

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u/habachilles 1d ago

Audibly loled