PC without a graphics card, 32 GB RAM. Updated 2 November 2026.
PC without a graphics card, 32 GB RAM can run 4 of the 31 models tracked here at a comfortable speed, and another 15 slowly. No chat model fits comfortably, so this machine is best kept for speech tools and tiny assistants.
Without a graphics card everything runs on the processor. System RAM (32 GB here) holds the model and moves data at roughly 70 GB/s, so even small models produce only a few words a second. It works for small assistants and speech tools, and is not realistic for image or video generation.
Best chat pick: Gemma 4 31B at about 2 words a second. Best coding pick: Qwen3 Coder 30B at about 8.
Image models need more memory than this machine has.
Video models need more memory than this machine has.
No text model runs at a useful speed.
Nothing fits comfortably, so there is no headroom to speak of.
The biggest single jump is PC with RTX 3090 (24 GB) and 32 GB RAM, which would unlock 19 more models, including Gemma 4 E2B, Qwen 3.5 4B, Gemma 4 E4B.
For chat, Gemma 4 31B is the best fit, at about 2 words a second. For coding, Qwen3 Coder 30B.
Gemma 4 12B runs at about 4 words a second (slow); gpt-oss 20B runs at about 7 words a second (slow); Qwen 3.5 35B A3B does not fit.
No. Qwen 3.5 35B A3B needs about 23.6 GB and this machine tops out near 22 GB.
| Model | Verdict | Speed | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACE-Step 1.5 | Runs well | about 25 min | 12 GB |
| Qwen3 TTS 1.7B | Runs well | about 8 min | 8 GB |
| Whisper large-v3 turbo | Runs well | about 10 min | 4 GB |
| Kokoro TTS | Runs well | about 2 min | 2 GB |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B | Slow | 8 words/s | 20.4 GB |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | Slow | 6 words/s | 19.4 GB |
| gpt-oss 20B | Slow | 7 words/s | 15.2 GB |
| Phi-4 14B | Slow | 3 words/s | 10.1 GB |
| Gemma 4 12B | Slow | 4 words/s | 8.9 GB |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Slow | 9 words/s | 7.4 GB |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | Slow | 5 words/s | 7.4 GB |
| Qwen3 VL 8B | Slow | 5 words/s | 6.9 GB |
| DeepSeek R1 8B | Slow | 5 words/s | 6 GB |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B | Slow | 6 words/s | 5.4 GB |
| Gemma 4 E2B | Slow | 14 words/s | 5.3 GB |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | Slow | 9 words/s | 4 GB |
| Gemma 4 31B | Very slow | 2 words/s | 21.5 GB |
| DeepSeek R1 32B | Very slow | 2 words/s | 21.5 GB |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | Very slow | 2 words/s | 19.9 GB |
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