Just yesterday, I installed Ollama onto my 2019/20 Dell G5 laptop ( i7-9750H CPU, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1660Ti 6GB GPU) running Linux Mint 22.3. I then installed
A user details their experience installing and running AI models locally on a Dell G5 laptop with a GTX 1660 Ti GPU. They successfully installed Ollama and loaded the Google Gemma4 E4B model, which performed quickly due to fitting entirely in GPU memory. The user also experimented with larger models like Qwen 3.5 9B and Gemma4 12B, noting that these required CPU assistance, resulting in slower performance. AI
IMPACT Demonstrates the feasibility of running smaller AI models locally on consumer-grade hardware for usable performance.