can it run
18.5 GB needed of 32 GB usable — headroom for context
32GB · GCN5.1 · model file 16.5GB · 27B
computed roofline: 1024 GB/s × 0.28–0.45 efficiency window / 16.5GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.
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