VibeThinker-3B tested on a 4 GB RTX 3050: a 3B verifiable-reasoning specialist that fits fully on a modest laptop GPU, beats qwen2.5-coder and qwen3:4b on hard math at a fraction of the power, and fills the escalation slot from the small-model routing study.

The dispatch experiment ended on a question: route the hard tail to a more capable model — but which one, if you do not want to reach for the cloud? VibeThinker-3B, a 3B reasoning specialist, runs entirely on the 4 GB laptop GPU you probably already own, solves competition math the workhorse cannot, and sips about 50 watts doing it.

Tag: Reasoning

Tag: Reasoning

The 4 GB Card You Already Own Can Reason Now