Which qwen Actually Fits a 16GB GPU
No qwen3.8 tag fits a 16GB card. Two Modelfile lines make it 79% faster than the default, and qwen3.5 9B with MTP runs Q8 weights at Q4 speed.
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No qwen3.8 tag fits a 16GB card. Two Modelfile lines make it 79% faster than the default, and qwen3.5 9B with MTP runs Q8 weights at Q4 speed.
Benchmarking gemma4 12B quants on the cheapest 16GB Blackwell card. QAT beats Q4_K_M outright, and its FP4, FP8, and MTP speedups are all macOS-only on Ollama.
I gave an OpenClaw agent its own Gmail, iCloud, and browser, then let it plan eleven days in Tokyo and Hakuba. No travel apps, no Google Flights, no Reddit threads.
Testing the Hailo-10H NPU for home automation: 6-8 tokens/second makes local AI assistants genuinely practical.
A guide to setting up Google Chrome with Claude Code's browser automation on Bazzite, covering both rpm-ostree layering and the recommended distrobox approach.
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