Will it run? / Gemma 3 12B / Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB)

Can the Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) run Gemma 3 12B?

Usable, but slow Yes, at about 6.6 tokens/sec (estimated). It works, but you'll wait on longer answers.

6.6estimated tokens/sec
9.6 GBmemory needed
27.2 GBavailable to the model
89.6 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run gemma3:12b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 8.1 GB. The Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) moves 89.6 GB/s, so the ceiling is 11 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 60%, an assumption until we get measured runs for this kind of machine. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.

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