@tunguz: After seeing these tweets, I decided to try it out on my own old Ubuntu computer with RTX 1070 GPU (the one that I just…
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A user reports successfully running Qwen3 8B locally on an older RTX 1070 GPU, demonstrating that modern LLMs can run on decade-old hardware with decent performance.
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After seeing these tweets, I decided to try it out on my own old Ubuntu computer with RTX 1070 GPU (the one that I just upgraded from 16.04 all the way to 24.04 the other day). Asked Codex on my Mac to connect to that machine and install and test qwen3 8b. So far really https://t.co/Vnc1a5XRd5
Sudo su (@sudoingX): ok this is wild. 10 year old gtx 1080 8gb pascal card running qwen3 8b locally at 18-20 tok/s via hermes agent and it’s actually doing the thing.
asked it to build a wireworld cellular automata simulator with 10 tests. autonomous run, no hand holding. expected it to fail on the
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