▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM — 3 GB VRAM.
▸ RADEON HD 8970 OEM SPEC
- BRAND
- AMD
- VRAM
- 3 GB GDDR5
- BANDWIDTH
- 264 GB/s
- FP16 COMPUTE
- 3.8 TFLOPS
- FP32 COMPUTE
- 3.8 TFLOPS
- STREAM PROCESSORS
- 2,048
- TDP
- 250 W
- ARCHITECTURE
- GCN 1.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
88/ 428 models @ Q4
With 3 GB VRAM and 264 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 3.2B parameters.
Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~30 tok/s.
§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RADEON HD 8970 OEM
88 FIT · SHOWING 20| MODEL | SIZE | VRAM Q4 | TOK/S | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| granite-4.0-h-micro 3.2B | 3.2B | 2.4 GB | 73 | 18.4 |
| Llama-3.2-3B | 3.2B | 2.4 GB | 73 | 17.9 |
| Falcon3-3B | 3.1B | 2.4 GB | 76 | 25.7 |
| Qwen 2.5 3B | 3.1B | 2.4 GB | 76 | 37.2 |
| SmolLM3-3B | 3.1B | 2.4 GB | 76 | 30.5 |
| Cogito 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 22.1 |
| Falcon-H1 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 49.5 |
| Ministral 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 29.6 |
| StarCoder2 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 9.5 |
| Granite 4.1 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 16.6 |
| Granite 4.0 3B Vision | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | 23.9 |
| xLAM-2 3B Function-Calling | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | — |
| Jamba 2 3B | 3B | 2.3 GB | 78 | — |
| Dolly v2 3B | 2.8B | 2.2 GB | 84 | 5.6 |
| StableLM Zephyr 3B | 2.79B | 2.2 GB | 84 | 14.9 |
| Zephyr 3B | 2.79B | 2.2 GB | 84 | 14.4 |
| OPT 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.1 GB | 87 | 28.0 |
| Phi-2 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.1 GB | 87 | 24.1 |
| Zamba2 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.1 GB | 87 | 48.0 |
| gemma-2-2b | 2.6B | 2.1 GB | 90 | 22.9 |