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Can the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti run qwen3.8 27B?

NO

18.5 GB vs 4 GB usable — does not fit

4GB · Pascal · model file 16.5GB · 27B

~1.9–3.4 tok/s

computed roofline: 112.1 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 16.5GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run qwen3.8 27B on instead

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3.8 27B fully ($999)

gtx-1650 — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

every model the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti can run — full list

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