NVIDIA/ Kepler
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
3 GB
VRAM (Budget)
120 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
57 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (20%)
~14 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Usable)
Model coverage at Q420% of all models
Specifications
VRAM
3 GB
Bandwidth
120 GB/s
FP16 Compute
2.6 TFLOPS
TDP
100W
Memory
GDDR5
Architecture
Kepler
CUDA Cores
1,344
52
Fast models (>30 tok/s)
Real-time chat speed
57
Usable models (>10 tok/s)
Comfortable for all tasks
57
Total compatible
Fit in VRAM at Q4
Compatible Models(57)
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GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
6.5
quality
VRAM12%
0.4 GB
774
tok/s
774
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
7
quality
VRAM12%
0.4 GB
711
tok/s
711
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM9%
0.3 GB
701
tok/s
701
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM15%
0.4 GB
287
tok/s
287
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM15%
0.4 GB
287
tok/s
287
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.9
quality
VRAM16%
0.5 GB
278
tok/s
278
tok/s
16% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
8.2
quality
VRAM17%
0.5 GB
267
tok/s
267
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
9.9
quality
VRAM26%
0.8 GB
192
tok/s
192
tok/s
26% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
19.4
quality
VRAM26%
0.8 GB
192
tok/s
192
tok/s
26% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM20%
0.6 GB
169
tok/s
169
tok/s
20% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
20.2
quality
VRAM21%
0.6 GB
160
tok/s
160
tok/s
21% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.6
quality
VRAM24%
0.7 GB
124
tok/s
124
tok/s
24% VRAM
S
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
12.3
quality
VRAM31%
0.9 GB
120
tok/s
120
tok/s
31% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
20.5
quality
VRAM33%
1.0 GB
107
tok/s
107
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
42
quality
VRAM33%
1.0 GB
96
tok/s
96
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
VRAM33%
1.0 GB
96
tok/s
96
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM37%
1.1 GB
87
tok/s
87
tok/s
37% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM37%
1.1 GB
87
tok/s
87
tok/s
37% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM39%
1.2 GB
80
tok/s
80
tok/s
39% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
18.3
quality
VRAM24%
0.7 GB
80
tok/s
80
tok/s
24% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
16.8
quality
VRAM41%
1.2 GB
74
tok/s
74
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
5.3
quality
VRAM39%
1.2 GB
74
tok/s
74
tok/s
39% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM41%
1.2 GB
74
tok/s
74
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM41%
1.2 GB
74
tok/s
74
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.1
quality
VRAM43%
1.3 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
43% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
22.8
quality
VRAM44%
1.3 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
22.8
quality
VRAM44%
1.3 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
30.2
quality
VRAM44%
1.3 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
14.6
quality
VRAM44%
1.3 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
9.5
quality
VRAM46%
1.4 GB
60
tok/s
60
tok/s
46% VRAM
A
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
16.2
quality
VRAM47%
1.4 GB
56
tok/s
56
tok/s
47% VRAM
A
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
32.6
quality
VRAM47%
1.4 GB
56
tok/s
56
tok/s
47% VRAM
A
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
22.8
quality
VRAM50%
1.5 GB
53
tok/s
53
tok/s
50% VRAM
A
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
26.2
quality
VRAM46%
1.4 GB
51
tok/s
51
tok/s
46% VRAM
A
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
20.2
quality
VRAM54%
1.6 GB
48
tok/s
48
tok/s
54% VRAM
A
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
35.8
quality
VRAM52%
1.6 GB
48
tok/s
48
tok/s
52% VRAM
A
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
37.8
quality
VRAM52%
1.6 GB
48
tok/s
48
tok/s
52% VRAM
A
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
28.3
quality
VRAM56%
1.7 GB
43
tok/s
43
tok/s
56% VRAM
A
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
15.9
quality
VRAM59%
1.8 GB
42
tok/s
42
tok/s
59% VRAM
B
CodeGemma 2B2.51B
gemma8K ctxcoding
22.9
quality
VRAM62%
1.9 GB
38
tok/s
38
tok/s
62% VRAM
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