AMD· GCN 2.0

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

VRAM
2 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
88
GB/S
MODELS Q4
42/331
13%
7B Q4 SPEED
~11
USABLE
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q413% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~26
TOK/S
7B
3.9GB NEEDED
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
2 GB
BANDWIDTH
88 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
1.5 TFLOPS
TDP
75W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
STREAM PROCESSORS
768
COMPUTE UNITS
12
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
42
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
42
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
42
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 42
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
782
TOK/S · 27% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
631
TOK/S · 28% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
579
TOK/S · 29% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
233
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
233
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
233
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
227
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
217
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
156
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
156
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
156
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
138
TOK/S · 42% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
130
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
101
TOK/S · 48% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
98
TOK/S · 49% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
87
TOK/S · 52% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
78
TOK/S · 55% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
78
TOK/S · 55% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
71
TOK/S · 58% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
65
TOK/S · 61% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
65
TOK/S · 61% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
60
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
60
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
60
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
60
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
60
TOK/S · 64% VRAM
A
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
52
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
A
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
49
TOK/S · 73% VRAM
A
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
46
TOK/S · 77% VRAM
A
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
46
TOK/S · 76% VRAM
A
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
43
TOK/S · 79% VRAM
A
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
41
TOK/S · 82% VRAM
B
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
39
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
B
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
39
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
B
Granite 3.1 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
39
TOK/S · 86% VRAM
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AMD Radeon R9 M270X2 GB VRAM.

RADEON R9 M270X SPEC
BRAND
AMD
VRAM
2 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
88 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
1.5 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
1.5 TFLOPS
STREAM PROCESSORS
768
TDP
75 W
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
42/ 331 models @ Q4

With 2 GB VRAM and 88 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 2B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~10 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RADEON R9 M270X
42 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Gemma 1 2B2B1.7 GB3920.2
Granite 3.0 2B2B1.7 GB3935.8
Granite 3.1 2B2B1.7 GB3937.8
Granite 3.3 2B2B1.7 GB3920.5
Qwen 3.5 2B2B1.7 GB3929.7
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B1.6 GB4126.2
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B1.6 GB4319.6
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B1.5 GB4616.2
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B1.5 GB4630.1
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B1.5 GB499.5
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB5243.8
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB525.1
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B1.4 GB5219.6
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB5219.6
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB5230.2
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B1.4 GB5214.6
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB6016.8
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B1.3 GB6018.9
OPT 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB605.3
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B1.3 GB607.2