Qwen3.5-0.8B ran on an Amlogic A113X sub-$20 CPU with 512MiB memory, measured on-device with a custom C runtime and single static binary.
Read the original at old.reddit.com→4/5 on ARC-Easy. This is a 5-case smoke test with greedy decoding, scoring rule fixed before the run. Not the official benchmark. The chip is an Amlogic A113X: quad Cortex-A53 from 2017, $10-20 class, no NPU, no GPU....
Original headline: "I ran Qwen3.5-0.8B on a sub-$20 CPU chip in under 512MiB of memory"
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- Aug 12, 09:51 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source I ran Qwen3.5-0.8B on a sub-$20 CPU chip in under 512MiB of memory