can it run
1.1 GB needed of 32 GB usable — headroom for context
32GB · GCN5.1 · model file 1.0GB · 1B
computed roofline: 1024 GB/s × 0.28–0.45 efficiency window / 1.0GB (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).
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