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Can the RTX A2000 Laptop run PHI4 mini 3.8B?

FULL

3.0 GB needed of 4 GB usable — headroom for context

4GB · Ampere (laptop) · model file 2.5GB · mini 3.8B

~42–68 tok/s

computed roofline: 192 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 efficiency window / 2.5GB (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).

Run PHI4 mini 3.8B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs PHI4 mini 3.8B fully ($110)

every model the RTX A2000 Laptop can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the RTX A2000 Laptop · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory