Qwen3 14B Heretic
on NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB · OpenVINO GenAI
Sep 18, 2026
Summary
User reports Qwen3-14B Heretic at 3.56 t/s on an Intel AI Boost NPU37XX in an Acer Predator Helios 16 AI laptop with 32 GB RAM and an RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB.
Setup is OpenVINO GenAI with the machine-made-Fibre INT4_SYM OpenVINO IR export, group_size=-1, all_layers=true, loaded directly via openvino_genai.LLMPipeline on NPU with no conversion. Load took 33.52 s and 96 output tokens took 26.98 s; peak RAM was about 15.6 GB with a 9.7 GB working set.
User also benchmarked Qwen3-8B INT4 SYM on the same NPU at 6.72 t/s with 6.15 s load, and found Qwen3-30B-A3B MoE impractical due to host memory pressure during OpenVINO preparation.