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NVIDIA· MAXWELL 2.0

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VRAM
6 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
120
GB/S
MODELS Q4
189/449
42%
7B Q4 SPEED
~14
USABLE
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q442% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~32
TOK/S
7B
~14
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
6 GB
BANDWIDTH
120 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
2.7 TFLOPS
TDP
60W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
CUDA CORES
1,280
87
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
189
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
189
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 189
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1067
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
711
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
686
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
686
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
375
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
356
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
315
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
287
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
287
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
287
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
274
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
253
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
192
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
192
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
185
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
169
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
169
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
160
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
160
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
160
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
155
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
130
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
128
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
119
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
110
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
102
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
89
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
87
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
80
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
80
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
80
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
80
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
74
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
74
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
74
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
71
TOK/S · 22% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
68
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
68
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT
64
TOK/S · 78% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M6 GB VRAM.

GEFORCE GTX 970M SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
6 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
120 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
2.7 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
2.7 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
1,280
TDP
60 W
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
189/ 449 models @ Q4

With 6 GB VRAM and 120 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 8.03B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~14 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR GEFORCE GTX 970M
189 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Command-R7B8.03B5.4 GB1235.3
Molmo 7B-D8.02B5.4 GB1217.9
Aya Expanse 8B8B5.4 GB1227.8
Cogito 8B8B5.4 GB1217.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8B5.4 GB1236.2
Gemma 3n E4B8B5.4 GB1228.8
Granite 3.3 8B8B5.4 GB1224.6
Llama-3.1-8B8B5.4 GB1223.5
Dolphin Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB1223.8
Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB1237.3
Tulu 3 8B8B5.4 GB1231.5
Ministral-8B8B5.4 GB1219.3
Nemotron-H 8B8B5.4 GB1278.4
Granite 8B8B5.4 GB1226.1
InternVL2 8B8B5.4 GB1244.6
MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B8B5.4 GB1240.8
RNJ-1 8B8B5.4 GB1253.5
Gemma 4 E4B8B5.4 GB1232.1
Granite 4.1 8B8B5.4 GB1225.1
InternVL3 8B8B5.4 GB1237.8