WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH
GTX 260 OEM holds 33 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a Q4_K_M card — the largest it takes is LFM2-VL 1.6B at Q4_K_M.
TOKENS/SEC PER $100
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8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
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what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
GTX 260 OEM2 GB——
Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.
▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM — 2 GB VRAM.
▸ GEFORCE GTX 260 OEM SPEC
- BRAND
- NVIDIA
- VRAM
- 2 GB GDDR3
- BANDWIDTH
- 112.9 GB/s
- FP16 COMPUTE
- 0.4 TFLOPS
- FP32 COMPUTE
- 0.4 TFLOPS
- CUDA CORES
- 192
- TDP
- 150 W
- ARCHITECTURE
- Tesla 2.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
33/ 449 models @ Q4
With 2 GB VRAM and 112.9 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 1.2B parameters.
Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~13 tok/s.
§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE GTX 260 OEM
33 FIT · SHOWING 20| MODEL | SIZE | VRAM Q4 | TOK/S | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | 1.2B | 1.2 GB | 75 | 19.6 |
| Llama-3.2-1B | 1.2B | 1.2 GB | 75 | 10.1 |
| LFM2 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.2 GB | 75 | 15.6 |
| Zamba2 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.2 GB | 75 | 41.5 |
| TinyLlama 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.2 GB | 82 | 13.6 |
| MiniCPM5 1B | 1.08B | 1.1 GB | 84 | 26.5 |
| InternVL3 1B | 0.94B | 1.1 GB | 96 | 58.0 |
| Qwen 3.5 0.8B | 0.87B | 1.0 GB | 104 | 22.5 |
| GPT-2 Large 774M | 0.81B | 1.0 GB | 112 | 5.6 |
| Qwen3 0.6B | 0.75B | 0.9 GB | 120 | 19.1 |
| LFM2 700M | 0.74B | 0.9 GB | 122 | 50.4 |
| Qwen 1.5 0.5B | 0.62B | 0.9 GB | 146 | 9.9 |
| Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B | 0.6B | 0.9 GB | 151 | — |
| Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B | 0.6B | 0.9 GB | 151 | — |
| Falcon Perception 0.6B | 0.6B | 0.9 GB | 151 | — |
| BGE-M3 | 0.568B | 0.8 GB | 159 | 63.0 |
| Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0 | 0.568B | 0.8 GB | 159 | — |
| Falcon-H1 0.5B | 0.52B | 0.8 GB | 174 | 41.7 |
| Qwen 2.5 0.5B | 0.5B | 0.8 GB | 181 | 19.4 |
| SmolVLM 500M | 0.5B | 0.8 GB | 181 | — |