Qwen can be retarded.
But yeah if you have less than 8gb vram, it’s pretty bad.
However, if you have a good amount of ram and a good CPU, you can get good speeds on CPU only. I only have 8gb vram. I run gpt-oss 20b and it offloads to the CPU. I should need 16gb vram to run it. It’s much smarter than qwen and it runs at usable speeds.