# How to quickly determine memory requirements for model

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How would I determine these requirements when I’m finetuning a model? I’m finetuning a 780 MB model with a 5 MB dataset. On my local machine this runs fine (16 GB ram) but when I use a GPU (Tesla T4 with 16 GB of GPU ram), I immediately get an OOM error when I launch `trainer.train()`.

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