Calculate the TPS of the Radeon RX 560 Mobile on local AI models

AMD 4 GB GDDR5 96 GB/s January 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

97 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

DeciLM 6B

5.7B · Q3_K_M · 15.0 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

31.7 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon RX 560 Mobile?

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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.

97 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
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

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
24.4 tok/s

15–39 · low confidence

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

15–39 · 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

Radeon RX 560 Mobile 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
Baffin
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Generation
Polaris Mobile(RX M500)
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Process size
14 nm
Transistors
3 billion
Transistor density
24,400 K/mm²
Die size
123 mm²
Package
BGA-769
Released
5 January 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
1.09 GHz
Boost clock
1.2 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
16
L1 cache
16 KB
L2 cache
1 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)
2.5 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
2.5 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
153.9 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
19 GPixel/s
Texture rate
77 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)
65 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
MXM-B (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 RX 560 Mobile

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

4 GB

Bandwidth

96 GB/s

Largest model

DeciLM 6B

At 4 GB of GDDR5 the Radeon RX 560 Mobile is limited to the smaller end of the catalogue. About 3.6 GB is actually available to a runtime, and a model has to fit entirely inside it before generating anything at all.

At 96 GB/s across a 128-bit bus, 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 1.5 GHz memory clock across the bus width above. 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 DeciLM 6B at 5.7B, running Q3_K_M and producing around 15.0 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile is built on the Baffin graphics processor, using AMD's GCN 4.0 architecture, as part of the Polaris Mobile(RX M500) generation.

The chip is manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a 14 nm process, with a die measuring 123 mm², holding 3 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 January 2017, roughly 9 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

2.5 TFLOPS

FP64

153.9 GFLOPS

On paper the Radeon RX 560 Mobile reaches 2.5 TFLOPS at half precision and 2.5 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 is 153.9 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 1.09 GHz at base to 1.2 GHz boosted. 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

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile has 16 KB of L1 cache, backed by 1 MB of L2. 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 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

65 W

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile is rated at 65 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 a 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-B (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 RX 560 Mobile

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 Qwen3.5-4B 4B · Q5_K_M · Feb 2026 14.2 tok/s
  2. 02 Voxtral Mini 4.7B · Q4_K_M · Jul 2025 15.6 tok/s
  3. 03 Typhoon 2.1 Gemma 4B 4B · Q4_K_M · May 2025 18.3 tok/s
  4. 04 Qwen3-4B 4B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 21.4 tok/s
  5. 05 Gemma 3 QAT 4B 4B · Q4_K_M · Apr 2025 18.3 tok/s
  6. 06 Gemma 3 4B 4B · Q4_K_M · Mar 2025 18.3 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 RX 560 Mobile

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 31.7 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 31.7 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 29.4 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 28.8 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 28.8 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 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 RX 560 Mobile

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

    Every one of the 97 models this Radeon RX 560 Mobile runs is in the table above. Search narrows it by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and on 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

    Read the speed and the range

    The figures are calculated, not measured. 31.7 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B is the fastest result on this card, and like every row it carries a range that reflects how much the runtime matters.

  5. 05

    Check the headroom before you decide

    A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against the 4 GB available.

  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 where the Radeon RX 560 Mobile sits against the alternatives.

Answers

Radeon RX 560 Mobile — common questions

01

What is the largest AI model a Radeon RX 560 Mobile can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a Radeon RX 560 Mobile 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.

02

How many tokens per second does a Radeon RX 560 Mobile produce?

It depends on the model. On a Radeon RX 560 Mobile the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 31.7 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.

03

How much memory does a Radeon RX 560 Mobile have?

A Radeon RX 560 Mobile has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 3.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

04

What is the memory bandwidth of a Radeon RX 560 Mobile?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile has 96 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 128-bit memory bus. 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.

05

What type of memory does a Radeon RX 560 Mobile 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.

06

Who makes the Radeon RX 560 Mobile?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile is a AMD product, with the chip manufactured by GlobalFoundries, on a 14 nm process.

07

When was the Radeon RX 560 Mobile released?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile was released in January 2017.

08

How much power does a Radeon RX 560 Mobile use?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile has a rated board power of 65 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.

09

How much cache does a Radeon RX 560 Mobile have?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile has 16 KB of L1 cache, and 1 MB of L2 cache. 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.

10

What are the TFLOPS of a Radeon RX 560 Mobile?

The Radeon RX 560 Mobile is rated at 2.5 TFLOPS at half precision and 2.5 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.

11

Does the Radeon RX 560 Mobile support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and the Radeon RX 560 Mobile is a AMD card. 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.

12

What bus interface does the Radeon RX 560 Mobile use?

It uses MXM-B (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.

13

Is the Radeon RX 560 Mobile 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 97 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

14

Can a Radeon RX 560 Mobile run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the 4 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.

15

Would two Radeon RX 560 Mobile cards be twice as fast?

Pairing Radeon RX 560 Mobile cards buys headroom rather than pace: 8 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

16

What AI models can a Radeon RX 560 Mobile run?

97 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a Radeon RX 560 Mobile and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

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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