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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

VRAM
1 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
51.2
GB/S
MODELS Q4
22/449
5%
7B Q4 SPEED
~6
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
51.2 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.3 TFLOPS
TDP
75W
MEMORY
GDDR3
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
CUDA CORES
112
PCIE
Gen 2 x16
22
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
22
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
22
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 22
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
455
TOK/S · 54% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
303
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
293
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
293
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
160
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
152
TOK/S · 65% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
134
TOK/S · 67% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
122
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
122
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
122
TOK/S · 69% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
117
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
114
TOK/S · 71% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
108
TOK/S · 72% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
82
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
82
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
79
TOK/S · 81% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
72
TOK/S · 84% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
72
TOK/S · 84% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
68
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
68
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
68
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
66
TOK/S · 87% VRAM
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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX1 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE 9800M GTX SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
1 GB GDDR3
BANDWIDTH
51.2 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.3 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
0.3 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
112
TDP
75 W
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla
▸ AI CAPABILITY
22/ 449 models @ Q4

With 1 GB VRAM and 51.2 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 0.62B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~6 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE 9800M GTX
22 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B0.9 GB669.9
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB68
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB68
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B0.9 GB68
BGE-M30.568B0.8 GB7263.0
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B0.8 GB72
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B0.8 GB7941.7
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B0.8 GB8219.4
SmolVLM 500M0.5B0.8 GB82
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B0.7 GB1085.9
SmolLM2 360M0.36B0.7 GB1148.2
LFM2 350M0.35B0.7 GB11746.3
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B0.7 GB12262.3
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B0.7 GB12264.7
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B0.7 GB12256.0
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B0.7 GB134
Gemma 3 270M0.27B0.7 GB15212.6
SmolVLM 256M0.256B0.6 GB16028.3
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B0.6 GB29362.3
GPT-2 124M0.14B0.6 GB2936.5