FitMyLLM
AMD/ GCN 1.0

AMD Radeon HD 7970

3 GB
VRAM (Budget)
264 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
57 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (20%)
~34 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Fast)
Model coverage at Q420% of all models

Specifications

VRAM
3 GB
Bandwidth
264 GB/s
FP16 Compute
3.8 TFLOPS
TDP
250W
Memory
GDDR5
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Stream Processors
2,048
Compute Units
32
PCIe
Gen 3 x16
57
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)

S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
1892
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
1738
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
1713
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
700
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
700
tok/s
15% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
680
tok/s
16% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
652
tok/s
17% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
469
tok/s
26% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
469
tok/s
26% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
413
tok/s
20% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
391
tok/s
21% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
303
tok/s
24% VRAM
S
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
293
tok/s
31% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
261
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
235
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
235
tok/s
33% VRAM
S
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
213
tok/s
37% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
213
tok/s
37% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
196
tok/s
39% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
196
tok/s
24% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
181
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
181
tok/s
39% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
181
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
181
tok/s
41% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
156
tok/s
43% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
156
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
156
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
156
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
156
tok/s
44% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
147
tok/s
46% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
138
tok/s
47% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
137
tok/s
47% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
130
tok/s
50% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
124
tok/s
46% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
117
tok/s
54% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
117
tok/s
52% VRAM
S
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
117
tok/s
52% VRAM
S
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
106
tok/s
56% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
102
tok/s
59% VRAM
S
CodeGemma 2B2.51B
gemma8K ctxcoding
93
tok/s
62% VRAM

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