▸ NVIDIA· FERMI

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VRAM

1 GB

BUDGET

BANDWIDTH

133.9

GB/S

MODELS Q4

18/331

5%

7B Q4 SPEED

~15

GOOD

▸ 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

133.9 GB/s

FP16 COMPUTE

1.1 TFLOPS

TDP

215W

MEMORY

GDDR5

ARCHITECTURE

Fermi

CUDA CORES

448

PCIE

Gen 2 x16

18

FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S

Real-time chat speed

18

USABLE · >10 TOK/S

Comfortable for all tasks

18

TOTAL COMPATIBLE

Fit in VRAM at Q4

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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 18

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

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 44% VRAM

GPT-2 124M0.124B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 45% VRAM

SmolLM2 135M0.135B

SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 46% VRAM

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

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 55% VRAM

mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 55% VRAM

Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 55% VRAM

GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 56% VRAM

SmolLM2 360M0.36B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 57% VRAM

Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 64% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 64% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 64% VRAM

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 67% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 68% VRAM

GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 77% VRAM

Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL

TOK/S · 78% VRAM

Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 83% VRAM

FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 88% VRAM

INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 88% VRAM

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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 — 1 GB VRAM.

▸ GEFORCE GTX 470 SPEC

BRAND: NVIDIA
VRAM: 1 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH: 133.9 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE: 1.1 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE: 1.1 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES: 448
TDP: 215 W
ARCHITECTURE: Fermi

▸ AI CAPABILITY

18/ 331 models @ Q4

With 1 GB VRAM and 133.9 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 1B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~15 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE GTX 470

18 FIT · SHOWING 18

MODEL	SIZE	VRAM Q4	TOK/S	AVG
Falcon3-1B	1B	1.1 GB	107	42.0
InternLM2 1B	1B	1.1 GB	107	—
Qwen3.5-0.8B	0.9B	1.0 GB	119	20.5
Qwen 3.5 0.8B	0.8B	1.0 GB	134	23.4
GPT-2 Large 774M	0.774B	1.0 GB	138	5.6
Qwen3 0.6B	0.6B	0.9 GB	179	19.1
BGE-M3	0.568B	0.8 GB	189	63.0
Falcon-H1 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	214	41.7
Qwen 1.5 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	214	9.9
Qwen 2.5 0.5B	0.5B	0.8 GB	214	19.4
SmolLM2 360M	0.36B	0.7 GB	298	8.2
GPT-2 Medium 345M	0.345B	0.7 GB	310	5.9
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M	0.335B	0.7 GB	320	62.3
mxbai-embed-large-v1	0.335B	0.7 GB	320	64.7
Snowflake Arctic Embed L	0.335B	0.7 GB	320	56.0
SmolLM2 135M	0.135B	0.6 GB	793	7.0
GPT-2 124M	0.124B	0.6 GB	864	6.5
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M	0.1B	0.5 GB	1071	62.3