4GB VRAM
GTX 1650 vs RTX 3060 on a 35B MoE: What the Card Buys
A $60-class GTX 1650 4 GB runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 20 tok/s on 32 GB of RAM. The RTX 3060 in the same slot does 28 at the same setting and 39 tuned. Measured.
What Can You Actually Run on 4GB VRAM?
Small dense 1B-4B models run at 18-55 tok/s. Qwen3 4B at Q4 is the 4GB sweet spot for chat and simple coding. 7B models don't fit — and the MoE offload trick starts at 12GB, not here.