VRAM bottleneck on consumer cards for Qwen

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[quote][quote]My first guess would be this: Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with DeepSeek and compare from there. Not glamorou

I don't think that's the whole story. I've seen people blame VRAM headroom when the real issue was much more mundane. Could be a workload difference, but I wouldn't generalize too fast from one setup.