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Qualcomm Adreno 620

Running LLMs on the Qualcomm Adreno 620 — the long read: which models fit at which quantisation, and the settings worth changing. · Or what a budget buys

VRAM
8 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
25.6
GB/S
MODELS Q4
201/449
45%
7B Q4 SPEED
~3
SLOW
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q445% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~8
TOK/S
7B
~3
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ MEASURED RIG REPORTS

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▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
8 GB
BANDWIDTH
25.6 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.5 TFLOPS
TDP
5W
MEMORY
Shared
ARCHITECTURE
Adreno 600
24
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
62
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
201
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 201
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
253
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
169
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
163
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
163
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
89
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
84
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
75
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
68
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
68
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
68
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
65
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
63
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
60
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
46
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
A
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
46
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
A
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
44
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
A
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
40
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
A
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
40
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
B
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
38
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
B
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
38
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
B
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
38
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
B
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
37
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
B
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
31
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
B
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
30
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
B
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
28
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
B
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
26
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
C
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
24
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
C
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
21
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
C
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
21
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
C
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
19
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
C
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
19
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
C
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
19
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
C
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
19
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
C
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
18
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
C
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
18
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
C
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
18
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
C
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
17
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
C
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
16
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
C
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
16
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
C
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
15
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
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WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH

Qualcomm Adreno 620 holds 201 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is Falcon3-10B at IQ4_XS.

TOKENS/SEC PER $100
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
Falcon3-10B10.3B · IQ4_XS7.1 GB3 tok/sEST
Bamba 9B v29.78B · Q4_K_M7.2 GB3 tok/sEST
RecurrentGemma 9B9.63B · Q4_K_M6.8 GB3 tok/sEST
glm-4-9b9.4B · Q4_K_M6.6 GB3 tok/sEST
Yi 1.5 9B9B · Q4_K_M6.5 GB3 tok/sEST
Yi Coder 9B9B · Q4_K_M6.5 GB3 tok/sEST
Ministral 3 8B8.92B · Q4_K_M6.6 GB4 tok/sEST
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning8.92B · Q4_K_M6.6 GB4 tok/sEST
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
M3 Pro (18GB)12 GB$1,5991.5 tok/s per $100
M1 Pro (16GB)11 GB$9992.9 tok/s per $100
M2 Pro (16GB)11 GB$1,2992.2 tok/s per $100
M4 (16GB)11 GB$4994.0 tok/s per $100
Qualcomm Adreno 6208 GB

Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.

▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

Qualcomm Adreno 620 — 8 GB VRAM.

QUALCOMM ADRENO 620 SPEC
BRAND
Apple
VRAM
8 GB Shared
BANDWIDTH
25.6 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.5 TFLOPS
TDP
5 W
ARCHITECTURE
Adreno 600
▸ AI CAPABILITY
201/ 449 models @ Q4

With 8 GB VRAM and 25.6 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 9.63B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~3 tok/s.

RENT IT — LIVE PRICES
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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR QUALCOMM ADRENO 620
201 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
RecurrentGemma 9B9.63B6.4 GB235.0
glm-4-9b9.4B6.2 GB220.5
gemma-2-9b9.2B6.1 GB230.2
Yi 1.5 9B9B6.0 GB330.3
Yi Coder 9B9B6.0 GB335.8
Ministral 3 8B8.92B5.9 GB325.7
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning8.92B5.9 GB3
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v28.9B5.9 GB344.2
InternLM3 8B Instruct8.8B5.9 GB338.7
Gemma 1 7B8.54B5.7 GB324.7
CodeGemma 7B8.54B5.7 GB340.2
LFM2 8B A1B8.3B5.6 GB1524.3
Seed-Coder 8B Instruct8.25B5.5 GB334.1
Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning8.25B5.5 GB332.9
DeepSeek R1-0528 Qwen3 8B8.2B5.5 GB336.3
Qwen3-8B8.2B5.5 GB343.3
Granite 3.0 8B8.17B5.5 GB336.4
Granite 3.1 8B8.17B5.5 GB338.6
Command-R7B8.03B5.4 GB335.3
Aya Expanse 8B8B5.4 GB327.8