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What a £300, 35W Snapdragon mini PC can actually do 👀: 35B coder at ~30 tok/s, and an 80B model that doesnt even fit in RAM running at 17 tok/s

£299.99 Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini (Snapdragon X1-26-100, 32GB, CPU only): - Qwen3.6 35B A3B coder: reads ~118 tok/s, writes 24.5, ~30 with MTP - Qwen3-Next 80B A3B: 17-18 tok/s writes with MTP How I got here... So I bought one of these boxes to test if software at work would run on ARM Windows - and t…

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  1. 2026-10-15 18:02 · r/LocalLLaMA
    What a £300, 35W Snapdragon mini PC can actually do 👀: 35B coder at ~30 tok/s, and an 80B model that doesnt even fit in RAM running at 17 tok/s

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