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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware.

I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat

This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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post #21

I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware. I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

> I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat

It's quite telling you didn't use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally to build that, seems there was another collaborator ;)

Show something you've built with the model+tooling instead, truly dogfood it. I'm sure you'll discover things along the way too!

Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reads as pretty clearly AI-generated text, which is against HN guidelines.

The PR? He said it was AI in the comment you replied to... I don't think the post itself reads like AI at all, but that's just me.

I think "this" refers to its parent comment. Part of it sounds like Claude wrote it. AI-generated comments aren't allowed on HN.

Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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post #21

I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware. I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

> on a decent speed

But you said 7-9 tokens/second, that's not a decent speed. I'm not an expert by all means but in my local experiments, less than 12 to 16 tps is too slow.

Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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post #21

I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware. I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

> I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat It's quite telling you didn't use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally to build that, seems there was another collaborator ;) Show something you've built with the model+tooling instead, truly dogfood it. I'm sure you'll discover things along the way too!

>>It's quite telling you didn't use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally to build that

that would have run into a race condition unfortunately ;)

but there is a sample landing page + a python function on the repo which shows what the model produced. my goal is to integrate the local model in my workflow so that claude/OAI can call this model for basic stuff.

Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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post #21

I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware. I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

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Re: Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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post #27
post #21

I have a prediction. By the mid of 2027, we will have >200B MoE models running on basic consumer hardware. I am running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on my 16GB mac with 7-9 tokens/second. Link - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/samosa-chat This is a GPT4 level model running locally with a decent speed on a 16gb ram macbook air.

> on a decent speed But you said 7-9 tokens/second , that's not a decent speed. I'm not an expert by all means but in my local experiments, less than 12 to 16 tps is too slow.

i am working on making it faster but to me 7-9 tokens/sec feels very good. it was 0 tokens/sec a year ago.
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