VRAM Lab publishes real measurements from the hardware most students and hobbyists actually have — not the hardware cloud vendors wish you rented.
The lab equipment:
- RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (6 GB VRAM) — Windows 11 + WSL2, the classic “gaming laptop doing ML” setup
- MacBook Air M4 (16 GB unified memory) — fanless Apple Silicon
- Free cloud GPUs — Kaggle T4 ×2, Google Colab
Every benchmark on this site was run on this hardware by me, with the exact versions, commands, power settings, and raw logs published alongside the numbers. When something does not fit or run, that negative result gets published too — knowing where the wall is matters more than marketing numbers.
I am a graduate student researching machine learning and security. This blog is where my environment-wrangling notes and measurement logs become searchable, so the next person hitting the same error spends five minutes instead of five hours.
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