This guy has the Qwen 3.8 177b MoE running on 12gb vram with 64gb of ram, getting 24.4 tokens/sec. A bit more resource hungry than the Qwen3.6 35b, but not by much and still well within the realm of home usage for what is essentially a Frontier model.
who has 12gb of vram
I don’t, but that’s a 3060. Plenty do.
I have 16, looking at the latest Steam hardware survey, it’s actually slightly more common than having 8.