Calculate the TPS of the Quadro P2000 on local AI models

NVIDIA 5 GB GDDR5 140 GB/s February 2017

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

203 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Sailor-7B-Chat

7.7B · Q3_K_M · 17.6 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

50.5 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Quadro P2000?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

203 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
50.5 tok/s

18–101 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
46.7 tok/s

16–93 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
45.9 tok/s

16–92 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
45.9 tok/s

16–92 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
45.9 tok/s

16–92 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
45.9 tok/s

16–92 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
42.1 tok/s

15–84 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
42.1 tok/s

15–84 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
42.1 tok/s

15–84 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
42.1 tok/s

15–84 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
41.0 tok/s

14–82 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 84k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
40.5 tok/s

14–81 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
38.8 tok/s

14–78 · low confidence

Phi-1 1.3B Oct 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Quadro P2000 full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
5 GB
Memory bandwidth
140 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
160 bit
Memory clock
1.75 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
GP106
Architecture
Pascal
Generation
Quadro Pascal(Px000)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
16 nm
Transistors
4.4 billion
Transistor density
22,000 K/mm²
Die size
200 mm²
Package
BGA-2173
Released
6 February 2017

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1.08 GHz
Boost clock
1.48 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
1,024
Texture mapping units
64
Render output units
40
Streaming multiprocessors
8
L1 cache
48 KB
L2 cache
1.25 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
47.4 GFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
3 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
94.7 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
59 GPixel/s
Texture rate
95 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
75 W
Suggested power supply
250 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Slot width
Single-slot
Dimensions
196 mm
Display outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

CUDA compute capability
6.1
DirectX
12.1
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a Quadro P2000

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

What the memory subsystem means for AI

Memory

5 GB

Bandwidth

140 GB/s

Largest model

Sailor-7B-Chat

Quadro P2000 carries only 5 GB of GDDR5. That limits it to the smaller end of the catalogue, and a model has to fit entirely inside before it generates anything at all. A runtime actually gets about 4.5 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 140 GB/s across a bus of 160 bits. Bandwidth is this card's real constraint. Every token requires reading the entire model out of memory, so a large model will feel slow here even when it fits.

The figure is the bus width multiplied by a memory clock of 1.75 GHz. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.

Put together, the largest model that fits is Sailor-7B-Chat, 7.7B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 17.6 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Quadro P2000 is built on the graphics processor GP106, using the architecture Pascal from NVIDIA, as part of the generation Quadro Pascal(Px000).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 16 nm, with a die measuring 200 mm², holding 4.4 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in February 2017, roughly 9.4818282710584 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

47.4 GFLOPS

FP64

94.7 GFLOPS

On paper Quadro P2000 reaches 47.4 GFLOPS at half precision, and 3 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Double-precision throughput reaches 94.7 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

Clocks run from a base of 1.08 GHz to a boost of 1.48 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

Quadro P2000 has an L1 cache of 48 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 1.25 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 1,024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 40 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

75 W

Quadro P2000 is rated at 75 W, and the suggested system power supply is 250 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies single-slot, measuring 196 mm long. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 3.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a Quadro P2000

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 SEA-LION-v1-7B-IT 7.5B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2024 18.2 tok/s
  2. 02 RWKV-5 (Eagle) 7B 7.5B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 18.1 tok/s
  3. 03 Qwen2.5 Instruct (7B) 7.6B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 17.9 tok/s
  4. 04 Qwen2.5-7B 7.6B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 17.9 tok/s
  5. 05 Qwen2.5-Coder (7B) 7.6B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 17.9 tok/s
  6. 06 LLaVA-OV-7B 7.6B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2024 17.9 tok/s
  7. 07 phi-3-small 7.4B 7.4B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 18.4 tok/s
  8. 08 Sailor-7B-Chat 7.7B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 17.6 tok/s
  9. 09 SeaLLM-7B-v2 7.4B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 18.5 tok/s
  10. 10 RWKV-4 World (7B) 7.4B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2023 18.4 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Quadro P2000

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 50.5 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 46.7 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 45.9 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 45.9 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 45.9 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Quadro P2000

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Start with the model, not the specification

    The table lists 203 models the card handles. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. Against 5 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress

    Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.

  4. 04

    Look at the range, not just the number

    Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it. The top end here is 50.5 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    The fit column separates models that just fit from those with room to spare — worth checking before settling on one, against an available 5 GB.

  6. 06

    Check the same model from the other side

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against Quadro P2000.

Answers

Quadro P2000 — common questions

01

Quadro P2000— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 5 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.

02

Would two Quadro P2000 cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 10 GB which lets you hold models neither could hold alone, but generation does not split that way. These figures describe one card.

03

Quadro P2000— which AI models can it run?

203 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

04

Quadro P2000— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Sailor-7B-Chat at 7.7B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 17.6 tokens per second and needs about 4.5 GB of the card's memory.

05

Quadro P2000— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 50.5 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

06

Quadro P2000— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Olmo 3 7B Think at Q3_K_M, using about 4.1 GB of memory and generating around 19.5 tokens per second.

07

Quadro P2000— how much memory does it have?

This card has 5 GB of GDDR5. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 4.5 GB available for a model and its conversation.

08

Quadro P2000— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 140 GB/s across a bus of 160 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

09

Quadro P2000— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR5 clocked at 1.75 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

10

Quadro P2000— who makes it?

This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 16 nm.

11

Quadro P2000— when was it released?

It was released in February 2017.

12

Quadro P2000— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 75 W, and the suggested system power supply is 250 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

13

Quadro P2000— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 48 KB, and the L2 cache is 1.25 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

14

Quadro P2000— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 47.4 GFLOPS at half precision and 3 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

15

Quadro P2000— does it support CUDA?

Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 6.1, which predates tensor cores. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.

16

Quadro P2000— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 3.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

17

Quadro P2000— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory limits it to smaller models though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 203 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.

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