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Can the GTX 980M run qwen2.5vl 7B?

NO

5.8 GB vs 4 GB usable — does not fit

4GB · Maxwell (laptop) · model file 5.6GB · 7B

~8–14 tok/s

computed roofline: 160.4 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 5.6GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run qwen2.5vl 7B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen2.5vl 7B fully ($135)

every model the GTX 980M can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the GTX 980M · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory