Windows laptop with RTX 4050 Laptop (6 GB) and 32 GB RAM. Updated 2 November 2026.
Windows laptop with RTX 4050 Laptop (6 GB) and 32 GB RAM can run 5 of the 31 models tracked here at a comfortable speed, and another 14 slowly. The largest chat or coding model that fits is Qwen2.5 Coder 7B, which needs about 5.4 GB and generates roughly 19 words a second. The quickest is Gemma 4 E2B at about 44 words a second, which feels faster than you can read.
Laptops with this chip include Acer Nitro V, Lenovo LOQ, HP Victus. Laptop graphics run at lower power than desktop cards, so expect somewhat lower speeds, especially on battery. Plug in for AI work.
Video memory (VRAM) is the limit: 6 GB on this card. A model must fit in VRAM to run fast. Anything larger spills into system RAM (32 GB in this setup), which works but is slow, because system RAM moves data at roughly 70 GB/s while the card moves 192 GB/s.
Best chat pick: Gemma 4 E2B at about 44 words a second. Best coding pick: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B at about 19.
Image models need more memory than this machine has.
Video models need more memory than this machine has.
Spare memory after loading the model decides how long a conversation or document can be before things slow down. With about 25 GB usable here:
The biggest single jump is Windows laptop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB, which would unlock 22 more models, including Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen 3.5 9B, Gemma 4 12B.
For chat, Gemma 4 E2B is the best fit, at about 44 words a second. For coding, Qwen2.5 Coder 7B.
Gemma 4 12B runs at about 7 words a second (slow); gpt-oss 20B runs at about 9 words a second (slow); Qwen 3.5 35B A3B runs at about 11 words a second (slow).
No. Llama 3.3 70B needs about 45.6 GB and this machine tops out near 25 GB.
| Model | Verdict | Speed | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B | Runs great | 19 words/s | 5.4 GB |
| Gemma 4 E2B | Runs great | 44 words/s | 5.3 GB |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | Runs great | 26 words/s | 4 GB |
| Whisper large-v3 turbo | Runs well | about 2 min | 4 GB |
| Kokoro TTS | Runs well | about 20 s | 2 GB |
| Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | Slow | 10 words/s | 24.6 GB |
| Qwen 3.5 35B A3B | Slow | 11 words/s | 23.6 GB |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B | Slow | 10 words/s | 20.4 GB |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | Slow | 8 words/s | 19.4 GB |
| gpt-oss 20B | Slow | 9 words/s | 15.2 GB |
| Phi-4 14B | Slow | 5 words/s | 10.1 GB |
| Gemma 4 12B | Slow | 7 words/s | 8.5 GB |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Slow | 19 words/s | 7.4 GB |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | Slow | 9 words/s | 7.4 GB |
| Qwen3 VL 8B | Slow | 11 words/s | 6.9 GB |
| DeepSeek R1 8B | Slow | 15 words/s | 6 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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