can it run
3.2 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context
12GB · Ampere · model file 2.6GB · 4B
computed roofline: 912.4 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 2.6GB (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).
→ Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 4B fully ($35)
→ rtx-3090 — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
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