Fish Audio Drama 3 says it needs a 48 GB NVIDIA card. My 16 GB Radeon disagrees.
Drama 3 officially needs an NVIDIA GPU with 48 GB.
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- How it works: it's a 35B MoE with ~3B active per token.
- Comes with a small web UI: voice cloning from a reference clip, multi-speaker scripts, and the same tags as Fish's own editor ([laughing], [sighing], <whisper>...</whisper> etc.).
- That's a known Drama 3 thing (the vLLM recipe mentions it too), I checked it against Fish's reference code and it's not the AMD port.
- Only tested on the RX 9070 (gfx1201) so far, would be cool to hear if it works on other cards.
Sources (1)
- [1]Fish Audio Drama 3 says it needs a 48 GB NVIDIA card. My 16 GB Radeon disagrees.r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 17, 08:27 PM
Drama 3 officially needs an NVIDIA GPU with 48 GB.
How it works: it's a 35B MoE with ~3B active per token.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
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