Workstation · 48 GB
70B Q4 serving begins here, with limited room for cache and concurrency.
Nex-N2.5-mini
The highest listed result may be a tight or offloaded fit. For daily use, prefer the first result marked Comfortable and keep context modest.
vLLM
Linux GPU servers, concurrency and OpenAI-compatible production APIs. CUDA, ROCm and XPU feature coverage differs. Driver, shared-memory and quantization compatibility are version-specific.
Open guideRepresentative open-weight models
Nex-N2.5-mini
- Estimated memory
- ~21 GB
- Context
- 262,144 (config max_position_embeddings)
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
- Estimated memory
- ~25 GB
- Context
- 262K native
Qwen3 32B
- Estimated memory
- ~24.5 GB
- Context
- 32K+
Qwen3 30B-A3B
- Estimated memory
- ~22.5 GB
- Context
- 32K+
Qwen3.6 27B
- Estimated memory
- ~18.5 GB
- Context
- 262K native
Qwen3.8 27B
- Estimated memory
- ~19.5 GB
- Context
- 262K native
Fit is based on estimated total model memory. Driver support, KV cache, multimodal projectors, concurrency, and desktop applications can all reduce available headroom. Current fit: Nex-N2.5-mini (Comfortable), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Comfortable), Qwen3 32B (Comfortable), Qwen3 30B-A3B (Comfortable), Qwen3.6 27B (Comfortable), Qwen3.8 27B (Comfortable).