NVIDIA· TESLA

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

VRAM
1 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
25.6
GB/S
MODELS Q4
23/428
5%
7B Q4 SPEED
~3
SLOW
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q45% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
1.7GB NEEDED
7B
3.9GB NEEDED
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
1 GB
BANDWIDTH
25.6 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.1 TFLOPS
TDP
20W
MEMORY
GDDR3
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
CUDA CORES
32
23
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
23
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
23
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 23
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
228
TOK/S · 54% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
205
TOK/S · 55% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
165
TOK/S · 56% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
152
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
80
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
76
TOK/S · 65% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
67
TOK/S · 67% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
61
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
61
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
61
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
A
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
59
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
59
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
57
TOK/S · 71% VRAM
A
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
41
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
A
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
41
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
41
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
A
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
41
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
B
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
36
TOK/S · 84% VRAM
B
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
36
TOK/S · 84% VRAM
B
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
34
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
B
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
34
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
B
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
34
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
B
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
34
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS1 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE 9600M GS SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
1 GB GDDR3
BANDWIDTH
25.6 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.1 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
0.1 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
32
TDP
20 W
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
▸ AI CAPABILITY
23/ 428 models @ Q4

With 1 GB VRAM and 25.6 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 0.6B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~3 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE 9600M GS
23 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB3419.1
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB34
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB34
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB34
BGE-M30.568B0.8 GB3663.0
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B0.8 GB36
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B0.8 GB4141.7
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B0.8 GB419.9
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B0.8 GB4119.4
SmolVLM 500M0.5B0.8 GB41
SmolLM2 360M0.36B0.7 GB578.2
LFM2 350M0.35B0.7 GB5946.3
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B0.7 GB595.9
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B0.7 GB6162.3
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B0.7 GB6164.7
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B0.7 GB6156.0
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B0.7 GB67
Gemma 3 270M0.27B0.7 GB7612.6
SmolVLM 256M0.256B0.6 GB8028.3
SmolLM2 135M0.135B0.6 GB1527.0