can it run
1.8 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context
8GB · Turing TU106 · model file 1.4GB · 1.7B
computed roofline: 448 GB/s × 0.48–0.72 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).
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