NVIDIA/ Maxwell
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
4 GB
VRAM (Budget)
29 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
64 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (22%)
~3 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Slow)
Model coverage at Q422% of all models
Specifications
VRAM
4 GB
Bandwidth
29 GB/s
FP16 Compute
1.4 TFLOPS
TDP
75W
Memory
DDR3
Architecture
Maxwell
CUDA Cores
640
PCIe
Gen 3 x8
12
Fast models (>30 tok/s)
Real-time chat speed
39
Usable models (>10 tok/s)
Comfortable for all tasks
64
Total compatible
Fit in VRAM at Q4
Compatible Models(64)
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
6.5
quality
VRAM9%
0.4 GB
187
tok/s
187
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
7
quality
VRAM9%
0.4 GB
172
tok/s
172
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM7%
0.3 GB
169
tok/s
169
tok/s
7% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM11%
0.4 GB
69
tok/s
69
tok/s
11% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM11%
0.4 GB
69
tok/s
69
tok/s
11% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.9
quality
VRAM12%
0.5 GB
67
tok/s
67
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
8.2
quality
VRAM12%
0.5 GB
64
tok/s
64
tok/s
12% VRAM
A
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
9.9
quality
VRAM19%
0.8 GB
46
tok/s
46
tok/s
19% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
19.4
quality
VRAM19%
0.8 GB
46
tok/s
46
tok/s
19% VRAM
A
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM15%
0.6 GB
41
tok/s
41
tok/s
15% VRAM
B
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
20.2
quality
VRAM16%
0.6 GB
39
tok/s
39
tok/s
16% VRAM
B
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.6
quality
VRAM18%
0.7 GB
30
tok/s
30
tok/s
18% VRAM
B
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
12.3
quality
VRAM23%
0.9 GB
29
tok/s
29
tok/s
23% VRAM
B
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
20.5
quality
VRAM25%
1.0 GB
26
tok/s
26
tok/s
25% VRAM
C
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
42
quality
VRAM25%
1.0 GB
23
tok/s
23
tok/s
25% VRAM
C
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
VRAM25%
1.0 GB
23
tok/s
23
tok/s
25% VRAM
C
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM28%
1.1 GB
21
tok/s
21
tok/s
28% VRAM
C
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM28%
1.1 GB
21
tok/s
21
tok/s
28% VRAM
C
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM29%
1.2 GB
19
tok/s
19
tok/s
29% VRAM
C
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
18.3
quality
VRAM18%
0.7 GB
19
tok/s
19
tok/s
18% VRAM
C
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
16.8
quality
VRAM30%
1.2 GB
18
tok/s
18
tok/s
30% VRAM
C
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
5.3
quality
VRAM29%
1.2 GB
18
tok/s
18
tok/s
29% VRAM
C
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM30%
1.2 GB
18
tok/s
18
tok/s
30% VRAM
C
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM30%
1.2 GB
18
tok/s
18
tok/s
30% VRAM
C
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
9.5
quality
VRAM35%
1.4 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
35% VRAM
C
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.1
quality
VRAM32%
1.3 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
32% VRAM
C
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
22.8
quality
VRAM33%
1.3 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
33% VRAM
C
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
22.8
quality
VRAM33%
1.3 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
33% VRAM
C
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
30.2
quality
VRAM33%
1.3 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
33% VRAM
C
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
14.6
quality
VRAM33%
1.3 GB
15
tok/s
15
tok/s
33% VRAM
D
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
16.2
quality
VRAM35%
1.4 GB
14
tok/s
14
tok/s
35% VRAM
D
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
32.6
quality
VRAM35%
1.4 GB
14
tok/s
14
tok/s
35% VRAM
D
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
22.8
quality
VRAM38%
1.5 GB
13
tok/s
13
tok/s
38% VRAM
D
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
20.2
quality
VRAM40%
1.6 GB
12
tok/s
12
tok/s
40% VRAM
D
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
35.8
quality
VRAM39%
1.6 GB
12
tok/s
12
tok/s
39% VRAM
D
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
37.8
quality
VRAM39%
1.6 GB
12
tok/s
12
tok/s
39% VRAM
D
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
26.2
quality
VRAM34%
1.4 GB
12
tok/s
12
tok/s
34% VRAM
D
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
15.9
quality
VRAM45%
1.8 GB
10
tok/s
10
tok/s
45% VRAM
D
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
28.3
quality
VRAM42%
1.7 GB
10
tok/s
10
tok/s
42% VRAM
D
OPT 2.7B2.7B
opt2K ctxchat
28
quality
VRAM49%
2.0 GB
9
tok/s
9
tok/s
49% VRAM
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