Buy a unified-memory machine if the AI model you want to run is bigger than 32GB. Buy a gaming PC with a discrete GPU if games come first and your models fit in its VRAM. That one number decides
A 4-bit 8B model needs about 5GB of VRAM, a 14B model about 9GB and a 32B model about 20GB, before the conversation itself takes its share. Those three numbers cover most of what people run in Ollama
No, you don't need an NPU for gaming. Games render on the GPU, and the neural processing unit sits idle unless software is written to use it. The "AI PC" and "Copilot+ PC" stickers tell you what
