# Can I run Whisper large-v3 on 8GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)?

Updated: 2026-06-15

**Yes, it runs.** Runs at int8 using ~2.5 GB of ~5 GB usable.

- Model: 1.55B Speech to text, peak ~2.5 GB memory at int8
- Device: 8 GB ram, ~5 GB usable
- Tools: whisper.cpp, faster-whisper, MacWhisper, WhisperX
- License: MIT (commercial use: yes)

Sources: https://github.com/openai/whisper, https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3, https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper, https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp.

More: https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/whisper-large-v3/laptop-8gb