AMD· GCN 1.0

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VRAM
3 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
288
GB/S
MODELS Q4
61/331
18%
7B Q4 SPEED
~37
FAST
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q418% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~85
TOK/S
7B
3.9GB NEEDED
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
3 GB
BANDWIDTH
288 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.3 TFLOPS
TDP
300W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
STREAM PROCESSORS
2,048
COMPUTE UNITS
32
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
61
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
61
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
61
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 61
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
2560
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2065
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
1896
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
764
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
764
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
764
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
742
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
711
TOK/S · 24% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
512
TOK/S · 26% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
512
TOK/S · 26% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
512
TOK/S · 26% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
451
TOK/S · 28% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
427
TOK/S · 29% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
331
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
320
TOK/S · 33% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
284
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
256
TOK/S · 37% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
256
TOK/S · 37% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
233
TOK/S · 39% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
213
TOK/S · 41% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
213
TOK/S · 41% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
197
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
197
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
197
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
197
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
197
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
171
TOK/S · 47% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
160
TOK/S · 49% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
151
TOK/S · 51% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
150
TOK/S · 51% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
142
TOK/S · 53% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
135
TOK/S · 55% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
128
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
128
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
S
Granite 3.1 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
128
TOK/S · 57% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition3 GB VRAM.

RADEON HD 7970 GHZ EDITION SPEC
BRAND
AMD
VRAM
3 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
288 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.3 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
4.3 TFLOPS
STREAM PROCESSORS
2,048
TDP
300 W
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
61/ 331 models @ Q4

With 3 GB VRAM and 288 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 3.2B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~33 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RADEON HD 7970 GHZ EDITION
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MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
granite-4.0-h-micro 3.2B3.2B2.4 GB8018.4
Llama-3.2-3B3.2B2.4 GB8017.9
Falcon3-3B3.1B2.4 GB8325.7
Qwen 2.5 3B3.1B2.4 GB8337.2
SmolLM3-3B3.1B2.4 GB8330.5
Cogito 3B3B2.3 GB8522.1
Falcon-H1 3B3B2.3 GB8549.5
Ministral 3B3B2.3 GB8529.6
StarCoder2 3B3B2.3 GB859.5
Dolly v2 3B2.8B2.2 GB915.6
StableLM Zephyr 3B2.79B2.2 GB9214.9
Zephyr 3B2.79B2.2 GB9214.4
OPT 2.7B2.7B2.1 GB9528.0
Phi-2 2.7B2.7B2.1 GB9524.1
gemma-2-2b2.6B2.1 GB9822.9
CodeGemma 2B2.51B2.0 GB10222.9
EXAONE Deep 2.4B2.4B2.0 GB10727.1
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B1.9 GB11119.3
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B1.8 GB11628.3
Gemma 1 2B2B1.7 GB12820.2