Tiny Ollama Models on an Old Xeon: CPU Shootout
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Gemma 3 1B, Llama 3.2 1B, Qwen3 0.6B, SmolLM2 360M and Granite 3.3 2B on a CPU-only Xeon E5-2670 VM. 60 real runs: tokens per second, RAM, and which ones actually got the answers right.
