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Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by roboror » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:44 PM UTC

Identified every component of my system incorrectly. W11.

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by jrm4 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:49 PM UTC

Interestingly wrong; probably has to do with the fingerprinting and whatnot.

I do appreciate that the "canirun" one

1) was also wrong 2) but let me pick my real card from the dropdown with results that seemed much more accurate.

Genuine question - is there literally any factor besides RAM and GPU (with VRAM info?)

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by embedding-shape » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

not_your_vase wrote: post #9

That's not very accurate. It sees 8 GB RAM instead of 64. And it detects GTX 9 GPU, though I have an RTX30 one. (Edit: now it came to my mind that Firefox has fingerprinting protection by default. But even after whitelisting this website, the result is the same)

I get "NVIDIA GeForce 8800" (?) in Firefox, and "ANGLE (NVIDIA Corpor" [sic] in Chromium/Chrome, the GPU is a RTX Pro 6000. I'm guessing if it doesn't have exact hit it basically picks at the top/bottom of the list?

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by haeberli » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:56 PM UTC

auto-detect failed to correctly detect 128GB ram vs 32GB ram on MacBook Pro M5

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by haeberli » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #4

cyanydeez wrote: post #3

One word: wrong.

This isn't constructive feedback. In my case it detected my Mac's capablities accurately and gave me models to use. What was wrong about it?

my case, did not detect my Mac's capabilities accurately

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by nickv » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC

haeberli wrote: post #14

auto-detect failed to correctly detect 128GB ram vs 32GB ram on MacBook Pro M5

Me too. I have the same spec model (M5 Max with 125gb of ram) and it reports as 32gb.

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by harvey9 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

Reports android tablet as a 'linux PC'.

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by dmitrygr » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:38 PM UTC

Firefox on macOS. site reported M1 and 16GB. Mac is M4 + 24GB

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by juancn » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

It's too conservative, on my Air M4 I run gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL fine with llama.cpp

The app states "Small Models (1-3B)".

Re: I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run

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Post by ms7892 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

jsherer wrote: post #10

I find this to be pretty accurate: https://www.canirun.ai/

Wow