Calculate the TPS of the Radeon E9174 MXM on local AI models

AMD 4 GB GDDR5 96 GB/s October 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

105 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

DeciLM 6B

5.7B · Q3_K_M · 15.0 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 4 E2B

37.2 tok/s · 5.1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon E9174 MXM?

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.

105 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
37.2 tok/s

22–60 · low confidence

Gemma 4 E2B 5.1B Apr 2026 3.4 GB 11k tokens ? Q3_K_M Tight
31.7 tok/s

19–51 · low confidence

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

19–51 · low confidence

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

19–51 · low confidence

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

19–51 · low confidence

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

19–51 · low confidence

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

19–51 · low confidence

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

18–47 · low confidence

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

17–46 · low confidence

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

17–46 · low confidence

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

17–46 · low confidence

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

17–46 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
26.4 tok/s

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

15–41 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 54k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
25.4 tok/s

15–41 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 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

Radeon E9174 MXM 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
4 GB
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
128 bit
Memory clock
1.5 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
Lexa
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Generation
Embedded(9000)
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Process size
14 nm
Transistors
2.2 billion
Transistor density
21,400 K/mm²
Die size
103 mm²
Package
FCBGA-769
Released
3 October 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
1.12 GHz
Boost clock
1.22 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
512
Texture mapping units
32
Render output units
16
L1 cache
16 KB
L2 cache
0.5 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)
1.2 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
1.2 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
78 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
20 GPixel/s
Texture rate
39 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)
50 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Slot width
MXM Module

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.

DirectX
12.0
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
Shader model
6.7

Listings

Where to buy a Radeon E9174 MXM

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

Why memory is the number that matters here

Memory

4 GB

Bandwidth

96 GB/s

Largest model

DeciLM 6B

Radeon E9174 MXM carries only 4 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 3.6 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 96 GB/s across a bus of 128 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.

That comes from a memory clock of 1.5 GHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.

The biggest thing it holds is DeciLM 6B, 5.7B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 15.0 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Radeon E9174 MXM is built on the graphics processor Lexa, using the architecture GCN 4.0 from AMD, as part of the generation Embedded(9000).

The chip is manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a process of 14 nm, with a die measuring 103 mm², holding 2.2 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 October 2017, roughly 8.9470948517095 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

1.2 TFLOPS

FP64

78 GFLOPS

On paper Radeon E9174 MXM reaches 1.2 TFLOPS at half precision, and 1.2 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 78 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 1.12 GHz to a boost of 1.22 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

Radeon E9174 MXM has an L1 cache of 16 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 0.5 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 512 shading units, 32 texture mapping units, and 16 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

50 W

Radeon E9174 MXM is rated at 50 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 mxm module. 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 MXM-A (3.0). 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 Radeon E9174 MXM

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 Gemma 4 E2B 5.1B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2026 37.2 tok/s
  2. 02 Qwen3.5-4B 4B · Q5_K_M · Feb 2026 14.2 tok/s
  3. 03 Nemotron 3 Nano-4B 4B · Q5_K_M · Dec 2025 14.2 tok/s
  4. 04 Qwen3-VL-4B 4B · Q5_K_M · Oct 2025 14.2 tok/s
  5. 05 Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 4B · Q5_K_M · Aug 2025 14.2 tok/s
  6. 06 Voxtral Mini 4.7B · Q4_K_M · Jul 2025 15.6 tok/s
  7. 07 Phi-4-Multimodal 5.6B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2025 15.3 tok/s
  8. 08 Minitron 4B 4.2B · Q4_K_M · Nov 2024 17.4 tok/s
  9. 09 XVERSE-MoE-A4.2B 4.2B · Q4_K_M · Apr 2024 17.4 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciLM 6B 5.7B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2023 15.0 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Radeon E9174 MXM

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 4 E2B 5.1B · Q3_K_M · 3.4 GB 37.2 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  3. 03 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  4. 04 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  5. 05 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  6. 06 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  7. 07 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  8. 08 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 29.4 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 28.8 tok/s
  10. 10 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 28.8 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon E9174 MXM

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

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. Against 4 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Set a minimum quality if you need one

    By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    The figures are calculated, not measured. The fastest result on this card is 37.2 tok/s on Gemma 4 E2B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Check the memory column before committing

    The fit column separates models that just fit from those with room to spare — worth checking before settling on one, against an available 4 GB.

  6. 06

    Cross-check against other hardware

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against Radeon E9174 MXM.

Answers

Radeon E9174 MXM — common questions

01

Radeon E9174 MXM— does it support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and this is a card from AMD. It runs language models through ROCm, Vulkan or Metal depending on the software, which are less mature than the CUDA path — our estimates apply a penalty for that.

02

Radeon E9174 MXM— what bus interface does it use?

It uses MXM-A (3.0). 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.

03

Radeon E9174 MXM— 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 105 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

04

Radeon E9174 MXM— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 4 GB drags the whole thing down, and none of the figures on this page assume it.

05

Would two Radeon E9174 MXM cards be twice as fast?

No. A second card doubles the memory to 8 GB which lets you hold models neither could hold alone, but generation does not split that way. These figures describe one card.

06

Radeon E9174 MXM— which AI models can it run?

105 of the 721 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.

07

Radeon E9174 MXM— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is DeciLM 6B at 5.7B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 15.0 tokens per second and needs about 3.5 GB of the card's memory.

08

Radeon E9174 MXM— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 4 E2B at about 37.2 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.

09

Radeon E9174 MXM— how much memory does it have?

This card has 4 GB of GDDR5. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 3.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

10

Radeon E9174 MXM— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 96 GB/s across a bus of 128 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.

11

Radeon E9174 MXM— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR5 clocked at 1.5 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.

12

Radeon E9174 MXM— who makes it?

This is a product of AMD, with the chip manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a process of 14 nm.

13

Radeon E9174 MXM— when was it released?

It was released in October 2017.

14

Radeon E9174 MXM— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 50 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.

15

Radeon E9174 MXM— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 16 KB, and the L2 cache is 0.5 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.

16

Radeon E9174 MXM— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 1.2 TFLOPS at half precision and 1.2 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.

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