NVIDIA· TESLA 2.0

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VRAM
2 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
112.9
GB/S
MODELS Q4
35/331
11%
7B Q4 SPEED
~13
USABLE
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q411% 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
2 GB
BANDWIDTH
112.9 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.4 TFLOPS
TDP
150W
MEMORY
GDDR3
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla 2.0
CUDA CORES
192
PCIE
Gen 2 x16
35
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
35
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
35
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 35
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
903
TOK/S · 31% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
728
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
669
TOK/S · 33% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
270
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
270
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
270
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
262
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
251
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
181
TOK/S · 45% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
181
TOK/S · 45% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
181
TOK/S · 45% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
159
TOK/S · 48% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
151
TOK/S · 49% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
117
TOK/S · 55% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
113
TOK/S · 56% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
100
TOK/S · 59% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
90
TOK/S · 63% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
90
TOK/S · 63% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
82
TOK/S · 66% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
75
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
75
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
69
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
69
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
69
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
69
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
69
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
60
TOK/S · 80% VRAM
A
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
56
TOK/S · 84% VRAM
A
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
53
TOK/S · 88% VRAM
A
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
53
TOK/S · 87% VRAM
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM2 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
35/ 331 models @ Q4

With 2 GB VRAM and 112.9 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 1.71B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~13 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE GTX 260 OEM
35 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B1.5 GB5316.2
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B1.5 GB5330.1
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B1.5 GB569.5
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB6043.8
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB605.1
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B1.4 GB6019.6
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB6019.6
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB6030.2
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB6014.6
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB6916.8
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B1.3 GB6918.9
OPT 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB695.3
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB697.2
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB697.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B1.2 GB7519.6
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B1.2 GB7510.1
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B1.2 GB8213.6
Falcon3-1B1B1.1 GB9042.0
InternLM2 1B1B1.1 GB90
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B1.0 GB10020.5