can it run
2.4 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context
8GB · Ampere · model file 2.0GB · 3B
computed roofline: 240 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 efficiency window / 2.0GB (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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