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Can the GTX 1070 Mobile run qwen3 1.7B?

FULL

1.8 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context

8GB · Pascal (laptop) · model file 1.4GB · 1.7B

~51–92 tok/s

computed roofline: 256.3 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 1.4GB (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 1.7B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 1.7B fully ($110)

every model the GTX 1070 Mobile can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the GTX 1070 Mobile · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory