▸ NVIDIA· TESLA 2.0

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VRAM

1 GB

BUDGET

BANDWIDTH

141.7

GB/S

MODELS Q4

13/331

4%

7B Q4 SPEED

~16

GOOD

▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q44% 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

141.7 GB/s

FP16 COMPUTE

0.6 TFLOPS

TDP

236W

MEMORY

GDDR3

ARCHITECTURE

Tesla 2.0

CUDA CORES

240

PCIE

Gen 2 x16

13

FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S

Real-time chat speed

13

USABLE · >10 TOK/S

Comfortable for all tasks

13

TOTAL COMPATIBLE

Fit in VRAM at Q4

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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 13

nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 55% VRAM

GPT-2 124M0.124B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 56% VRAM

SmolLM2 135M0.135B

SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 57% VRAM

bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 69% VRAM

mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 69% VRAM

Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 69% VRAM

GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 70% VRAM

SmolLM2 360M0.36B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 71% VRAM

Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 79% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 79% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 79% VRAM

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 84% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 86% VRAM

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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 — 1 GB VRAM.

▸ GEFORCE GTX 280 SPEC

BRAND: NVIDIA
VRAM: 1 GB GDDR3
BANDWIDTH: 141.7 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE: 0.6 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE: 0.6 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES: 240
TDP: 236 W
ARCHITECTURE: Tesla 2.0

▸ AI CAPABILITY

13/ 331 models @ Q4

With 1 GB VRAM and 141.7 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 0.6B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~16 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE GTX 280

13 FIT · SHOWING 13

MODEL	SIZE	VRAM Q4	TOK/S	AVG
Qwen3 0.6B	0.6B	0.9 GB	189	19.1
BGE-M3	0.568B	0.8 GB	200	63.0
Falcon-H1 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	227	41.7
Qwen 1.5 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	227	9.9
Qwen 2.5 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	227	19.4
SmolLM2 360M	0.36B	0.7 GB	315	8.2
GPT-2 Medium 345M	0.345B	0.7 GB	329	5.9
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M	0.335B	0.7 GB	338	62.3
mxbai-embed-large-v1	0.335B	0.7 GB	338	64.7
Snowflake Arctic Embed L	0.335B	0.7 GB	338	56.0
SmolLM2 135M	0.135B	0.6 GB	840	7.0
GPT-2 124M	0.124B	0.6 GB	914	6.5
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M	0.1B	0.5 GB	1134	62.3