# Can I run Bark on 16GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)?

Updated: 2026-06-15

**Yes, it runs.** Runs at fp32 using ~5 GB of ~12 GB usable.

- Model: 900M Text to speech (and sound effects), peak ~5 GB memory at fp32
- Device: 16 GB ram, ~12 GB usable
- Tools: HF Transformers, suno-ai/bark, BetterTransformer
- License: MIT (commercial use: yes)

Sources: https://huggingface.co/suno/bark, https://huggingface.co/blog/optimizing-bark, https://github.com/suno-ai/bark.

More: https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/bark/laptop-16gb