AMD· GCN 1.0

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VRAM
4 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
154
GB/S
MODELS Q4
74/331
22%
7B Q4 SPEED
~20
GOOD
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q422% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~46
TOK/S
7B
3.9GB NEEDED
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
4 GB
BANDWIDTH
154 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
2.3 TFLOPS
TDP
100W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
STREAM PROCESSORS
1,280
COMPUTE UNITS
20
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
73
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
74
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
74
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 74
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
1369
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1104
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
1014
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
409
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
409
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
409
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
397
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
380
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
274
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
274
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
274
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
241
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
228
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
177
TOK/S · 24% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
171
TOK/S · 24% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
152
TOK/S · 26% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
137
TOK/S · 27% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
137
TOK/S · 27% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
124
TOK/S · 29% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
114
TOK/S · 31% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
114
TOK/S · 31% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
105
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
105
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
105
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
105
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
105
TOK/S · 32% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
91
TOK/S · 35% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
86
TOK/S · 37% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
81
TOK/S · 38% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
80
TOK/S · 38% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
76
TOK/S · 40% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
72
TOK/S · 41% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
68
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
68
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
S
Granite 3.1 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
68
TOK/S · 43% VRAM
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AMD Radeon R9 M290X4 GB VRAM.

RADEON R9 M290X SPEC
BRAND
AMD
VRAM
4 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
154 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
2.3 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
2.3 TFLOPS
STREAM PROCESSORS
1,280
TDP
100 W
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
74/ 331 models @ Q4

With 4 GB VRAM and 154 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 4.7B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~18 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RADEON R9 M290X
74 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Qwen3.5-4B4.7B3.4 GB2929.3
InternLM2 5B4.5B3.2 GB3047.6
Gemma 3 4B4.3B3.1 GB3222.8
TranslateGemma 4B4B2.9 GB345.5
MedGemma 1.5 4B4B2.9 GB345.5
Qwen 1.5 4B4B2.9 GB3412.6
Qwen3 4B4B2.9 GB3440.7
Qwen 3.5 4B4B2.9 GB3447.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B3.97B2.9 GB3432.0
Phi-3.5 Mini 3.8B3.82B2.8 GB3646.6
phi-3-mini-4k 3.8B3.8B2.8 GB3630.5
Phi-4-mini 3.8B3.8B2.8 GB3649.0
Qwen2.5-VL-3B3.8B2.8 GB3629.9
granite-4.0-h-micro 3.2B3.2B2.4 GB4318.4
Llama-3.2-3B3.2B2.4 GB4317.9
Falcon3-3B3.1B2.4 GB4425.7
Qwen 2.5 3B3.1B2.4 GB4437.2
SmolLM3-3B3.1B2.4 GB4430.5
Cogito 3B3B2.3 GB4622.1
Falcon-H1 3B3B2.3 GB4649.5