LM Studio 0.4 adds a mode for server-native deployment, parallel inference requests, and a stateful REST API that supports using local MCP servers.
Introducing llmster
Parallel Requests. Serve multiple concurrent inference requests. Requests to the same model can now be processed in parallel, instead of queued. Try this feature by putting two chats side-by-side in the new Split View feature.
.\llama-server.exe -m qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0.gguf -ngl 60 --flash-attn on -c 32768 -b 2048 -ub 512 -t 6
llama-server.exe -m "gemma-4-12b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf" -cmoe -c 248000 -ngl 99 --n-gpu-layers 99 -v
gemma 4 github repo pls best version 28b? im using llama.cpp on hp i5 pc with 32 gig ram and quadro 8gig gpuOfficial Gemma repo: https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma
Best option for your hardware (i5 + 32GB RAM + Quadro 8GB GPU + llama.cpp)
There isn't an exact 28B model. The closest (and very strong) is the Gemma 4 26B-A4B (Mixture-of-Experts, only ~4B active params per token). It's one of the best tradeoffs in the family.
Recommended for your setup:
Top pick if you want the biggest/best quality you can reasonably run: Gemma 4 26B-A4B-it (instruction-tuned) in a low quantization like Q4_K_M or IQ4_XS / Q3_K (try from highest quality that fits).
Safer/faster daily driver: Gemma 4 12B-it or E4B — these will run much better on 8GB VRAM.
Why 26B-A4B?
MoE architecture makes it surprisingly efficient (behaves more like a 4B-8B model in compute while delivering near-31B quality on many tasks).
GGUF Downloads (llama.cpp optimized)
Main collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/ggml-org/gemma-4
Popular high-quality ones:
ggml-org/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF (best balance)
unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF (also excellent, often has good quants)
ggml-org/gemma-4-12B-it-GGUF or E4B
--hf flag in recent llama.cpp for easy download, e.g.:
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Offload as many layers as possible to GPU with -ngl 30-40 (or whatever fits without OOM — test incrementally). The rest goes to CPU/RAM.
Use low quants +
--cache-type-k q4_0
--cache-type-v q4_0
to save VRAM.
--chat-template-file
with the Gemma 4 template from llama.cpp.
Your 32GB system RAM is excellent for CPU offloading and large context (up to 128k-256k on 26B with care).
Python API request
import urllib.request, json
data = json.dumps({
"model": "qwen2.5-coder-7b-q8_0",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is a tsunami?"}],
"temperature": 0.7,
"max_tokens": 512
}).encode()
req = urllib.request.Request(
"http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/chat/completions",
data=data,
headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as r:
result = json.loads(r.read())
print(result["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])
Local Hardware
Mac Studio
Apple M4 Max chip
16-core CPU, a 40-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine
128GB of integrated memory
1TB SSD storage
130k baht
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Mac Studio
Apple M3 Ultra chip
28-core CPU, a 60-core GPU, and a 32-core Neural Engine
256GB of integrated memory
1TB SSD storage
200k++ baht
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