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Your $40,000 GPU Is Overkill: Running Gemma 4 on a Decade-Old Xeon
TechOverwatch Editorial
May 1, 2026
8 min read
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Executive Summary
"Discover how to run Google's Gemma 4 on a 10-year-old Intel Broadwell Xeon processor. A deep dive into memory bandwidth, GGUF quantization, and why you might not need a $40,000 GPU."

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