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So I have a system that has 64GB RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. I am confused about RAM and VRAM. I see that the GPU I have has a VRAM of 12GB.

I wanted to give Gemma4:31b a try but I see that it is 20GB in size. I am a noob so forgive me but can’t that loads into RAM instead of the GPU? Also based on my config, any good agentic coding models you can suggest? I know im not going to get the same as what Claude offers