Calculate the TPS of the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile on local AI models

NVIDIA 8 GB GDDR6 448 GB/s January 2019

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

337 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Baichuan 1-13B

13.3B · Q3_K_M · 38.6 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

190 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile?

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.

337 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
190 tok/s

161–228

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

161–228

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

114–304 · low confidence

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

114–304 · low confidence

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

114–304 · low confidence

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

114–304 · low confidence

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

105–281 · low confidence

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

104–276 · low confidence

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

104–276 · low confidence

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

104–276 · low confidence

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

104–276 · low confidence

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

95–253 · low confidence

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

95–253 · low confidence

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

95–253 · low confidence

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

95–253 · low confidence

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

131–185

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
152 tok/s

91–243 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · low confidence

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

88–234 · 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

GeForce RTX 2070 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
8 GB
Memory bandwidth
448 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR6
Memory bus width
256 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
TU106
Architecture
Turing
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
12 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
Transistor density
24,300 K/mm²
Die size
445 mm²
Package
BGA-2228
Released
29 January 2019

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
1.22 GHz
Boost clock
1.44 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
2,304
Texture mapping units
144
Render output units
64
Streaming multiprocessors
36
Tensor cores
288
Ray tracing cores
36
L1 cache
64 KB
L2 cache
4 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)
13.3 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
6.6 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
207.4 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
92 GPixel/s
Texture rate
207 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)
115 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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.

CUDA compute capability
7.5
DirectX
12.2
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a GeForce RTX 2070 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

Memory: the specification that decides everything

Memory

8 GB

Bandwidth

448 GB/s

Largest model

Baichuan 1-13B

At 8 GB of GDDR6 the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is limited to the smaller end of the catalogue. About 7.2 GB is actually available to a runtime, and a model has to fit entirely inside it before generating anything at all.

The memory bus moves 448 GB/s across a 256-bit bus. That is the number that governs generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.

The figure is the memory clock — 1.75 GHz here — multiplied by the bus width. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

The biggest thing it holds is Baichuan 1-13B (13.3B) at Q3_K_M compression, for about 38.6 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is built on the TU106 graphics processor, using NVIDIA's Turing architecture, as part of the GeForce 20 Mobile generation.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 12 nm process, with a die measuring 445 mm², holding 10.8 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 2019, roughly 7 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

13.3 TFLOPS

FP64

207.4 GFLOPS

Tensor cores

288

On paper the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile reaches 13.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 6.6 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 207.4 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.

The card carries 288 tensor cores across 36 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.

Clocks run from 1.22 GHz at base to 1.44 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 GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has 64 KB of L1 cache, backed by 4 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 2,304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 64 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

115 W

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is rated at 115 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 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 GeForce RTX 2070 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 OLMo 2 Furious 13B 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2024 39.4 tok/s
  2. 02 Cambrian-1-13B 13B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2024 39.4 tok/s
  3. 03 Fugaku-LLM 13B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 39.4 tok/s
  4. 04 OpenThaiGPT v1.0.0 (13B) 13.1B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 39.1 tok/s
  5. 05 Aya 13B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2024 39.4 tok/s
  6. 06 Elyza 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 39.4 tok/s
  7. 07 NexusRaven-V2 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 39.4 tok/s
  8. 08 Baize-v2-13B (白泽) 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 39.4 tok/s
  9. 09 Stockmark-13B 13.2B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2023 38.8 tok/s
  10. 10 Baichuan 1-13B 13.3B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2023 38.6 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a GeForce RTX 2070 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 190 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 190 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 190 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 190 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 190 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 190 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 176 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 172 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 172 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 172 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a GeForce RTX 2070 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

    The table lists 337 models this GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile can run. Search by name, or by size — typing 27b matches on the parameter count even when the name never states it.

  2. 02

    Set the context length you will actually use

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and on 8 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress

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

  4. 04

    Look at the range, not just the number

    Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it — 190 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B at the top end here. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Check the headroom before you decide

    The fit column separates models that just fit from those with room to spare — worth checking against the card's 8 GB before settling on one.

  6. 06

    Open the model to compare cards

    Every model name in the table links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across every card we hold. That is where you see whether the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is the right buy for it or merely a card that fits.

Answers

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile — common questions

01

Who makes the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is a NVIDIA product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 12 nm process.

02

When was the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile released?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile was released in January 2019.

03

How much power does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile use?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has a rated board power of 115 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.

04

How much cache does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile have?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has 64 KB of L1 cache, and 4 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.

05

What are the TFLOPS of a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is rated at 13.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 6.6 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.

06

How many tensor cores does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile have?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has 288 tensor cores across 36 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.

07

Does the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile support CUDA?

Yes. The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile reports CUDA compute capability 7.5. 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.

08

What bus interface does the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 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.

09

Is the GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile good for running local AI models?

Its memory limits it to smaller models and its bandwidth gives usable, if unspectacular, generation speeds. In total it runs 337 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

10

Can a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile run a model that does not fit in its memory?

It can be split, with the overflow held in system memory — but that part drags the whole thing down, and none of the 8 GB figures on this page assume it.

11

Would two GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 16 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile.

12

What AI models can a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile run?

337 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a GeForce RTX 2070 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.

13

What is the largest AI model a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 38.6 tokens per second and needs about 7.2 GB of the card's memory.

14

How many tokens per second does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile produce?

It depends on the model. On a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 190 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.

15

Can a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile run a 7B model?

Yes. For example a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile runs MetaMath 7B (LLaMa finetune) at Q4_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 62.6 tokens per second.

16

Can a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile run a 13B model?

Yes. For example a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile runs Gemma 4 12B at Q3_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 42.9 tokens per second.

17

How much memory does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile have?

A GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 7.2 GB available for a model and its conversation.

18

What is the memory bandwidth of a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile?

The GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile has 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 256-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.

19

What type of memory does a GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile use?

It uses GDDR6 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.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

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