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Can the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti run qwen3 4B?

FULL

3.2 GB needed of 4 GB usable — headroom for context

4GB · Pascal · model file 2.6GB · 4B

~12–22 tok/s

computed roofline: 112.1 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 2.6GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run qwen3 4B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 4B fully ($110)

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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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory