can it run
3.8 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context
12GB · Pascal · model file 3.3GB · 4B
computed roofline: 480.4 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 3.3GB (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 gemma3 4B fully ($35)
→ RTX 3090 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine
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