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can it run

Can the Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) run qwen3.8 27B?

NO

No. 8GB of memory can't hold the 21GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

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Specs

model file16.5GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory21GB working set
this machine8GB LPDDR4x + 13 TOPS Hailo accelerator
params27B
licenseapache-2.0
price$110

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull qwen3.8:27b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest machine that runs it ($999)

Buy

Raspberry Pi ↗ · Amazon ↗

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