What kind of graphics card do I actually need to run DeepSeek 67B on my own computer at home? Sorry if this is a really basic question but I am completely lost with all these numbers and letters. I work at a small marketing agency here in Chicago and we keep hearing about these open source models being better for privacy so I wanted to try setting it up myself to learn. My budget is around $1,500 maybe $1,800 if I stretch it but I have no idea if that is even enough to get started.

I keep seeing people talk about VRAM and parameters and it feels like another language to be honest. Is 67B the size of the file or how much memory it uses? I was looking at some gaming cards like the RTX 4070 but then I saw someone say you need like 48GB of something to run the big ones and now I'm just confused. Is there a specific card that just works for this model or do I have to buy two cards and stick them together? I really want to get this built by the end of next month so I can start testing it for some copy writing stuff we do for clients. If I buy the wrong thing I'm gonna be out a lot of money so I figured I should ask here first before I click buy on anything...