NVIDIA/ Pascal
NVIDIA GTX 1070
8 GB
VRAM (Entry-level)
256 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
147 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (51%)
~29 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Good)
Model coverage at Q451% of all models
Specifications
VRAM
8 GB
Bandwidth
256 GB/s
FP16 Compute
6.5 TFLOPS
TDP
150W
Memory
GDDR5
Architecture
Pascal
CUDA Cores
1,920
PCIe
Gen 3 x16
MSRP
$100
75
Fast models (>30 tok/s)
Real-time chat speed
147
Usable models (>10 tok/s)
Comfortable for all tasks
147
Total compatible
Fit in VRAM at Q4
Compatible Models(147)
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GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
6.5
quality
VRAM5%
0.4 GB
1652
tok/s
1652
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
7
quality
VRAM5%
0.4 GB
1517
tok/s
1517
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM3%
0.3 GB
1495
tok/s
1495
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM5%
0.4 GB
611
tok/s
611
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM5%
0.4 GB
611
tok/s
611
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.9
quality
VRAM6%
0.5 GB
594
tok/s
594
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
8.2
quality
VRAM6%
0.5 GB
569
tok/s
569
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
9.9
quality
VRAM10%
0.8 GB
410
tok/s
410
tok/s
10% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
19.4
quality
VRAM10%
0.8 GB
410
tok/s
410
tok/s
10% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM8%
0.6 GB
361
tok/s
361
tok/s
8% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
20.2
quality
VRAM8%
0.6 GB
341
tok/s
341
tok/s
8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.6
quality
VRAM9%
0.7 GB
265
tok/s
265
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
12.3
quality
VRAM12%
0.9 GB
256
tok/s
256
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
20.5
quality
VRAM12%
1.0 GB
228
tok/s
228
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
42
quality
VRAM13%
1.0 GB
205
tok/s
205
tok/s
13% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
VRAM13%
1.0 GB
205
tok/s
205
tok/s
13% VRAM
S
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM14%
1.1 GB
186
tok/s
186
tok/s
14% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM14%
1.1 GB
186
tok/s
186
tok/s
14% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM15%
1.2 GB
171
tok/s
171
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
18.3
quality
VRAM9%
0.7 GB
171
tok/s
171
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
16.8
quality
VRAM15%
1.2 GB
158
tok/s
158
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
5.3
quality
VRAM15%
1.2 GB
158
tok/s
158
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM15%
1.2 GB
158
tok/s
158
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM15%
1.2 GB
158
tok/s
158
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.1
quality
VRAM16%
1.3 GB
137
tok/s
137
tok/s
16% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
22.8
quality
VRAM17%
1.3 GB
137
tok/s
137
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
22.8
quality
VRAM17%
1.3 GB
137
tok/s
137
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
30.2
quality
VRAM17%
1.3 GB
137
tok/s
137
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
14.6
quality
VRAM17%
1.3 GB
137
tok/s
137
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
9.5
quality
VRAM17%
1.4 GB
128
tok/s
128
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
16.2
quality
VRAM18%
1.4 GB
120
tok/s
120
tok/s
18% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
32.6
quality
VRAM17%
1.4 GB
120
tok/s
120
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
22.8
quality
VRAM19%
1.5 GB
114
tok/s
114
tok/s
19% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
26.2
quality
VRAM17%
1.4 GB
108
tok/s
108
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Granite 4.0 Tiny7BMoE
granite125K ctxchatcodingmultilingual
49.2
quality
VRAM55%
4.4 GB
102
tok/s
102
tok/s
55% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
20.2
quality
VRAM20%
1.6 GB
102
tok/s
102
tok/s
20% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
35.8
quality
VRAM20%
1.6 GB
102
tok/s
102
tok/s
20% VRAM
S
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
37.8
quality
VRAM20%
1.6 GB
102
tok/s
102
tok/s
20% VRAM
S
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
28.3
quality
VRAM21%
1.7 GB
93
tok/s
93
tok/s
21% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
15.9
quality
VRAM22%
1.8 GB
89
tok/s
89
tok/s
22% VRAM
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