Reviving a 2016 Legend: Running Google’s Gemma 4 on an Aging GTX 1080

This achievement demonstrates that Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures are game-changers for local LLM execution on consumer hardware with limited VRAM. By leveraging PCIe bandwidth to stream weights from system RAM, users can achieve high-performance inference on decade-old GPUs, significantly democratizing access to state-of-the-art AI.