Qwen3 8B Runs At 30 Tokens Per Second On Old Ubuntu Hardware

After seeing these tweets, I decided to try it out on my own old Ubuntu computer with RTX 1070 GPU (the one that I just upgraded from 16.04 all the way to 24.04 the other day). Asked Codex on my Mac to connect to that machine and install and test qwen3 8b. So far really impressive - running 30 tok/s!