Calculate the TPS of the Radeon E9390 PCIe on local AI models

AMD 8 GB GDDR5 160 GB/s October 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

351 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Baichuan 1-13B

13.3B · Q3_K_M · 10.8 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

52.9 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon E9390 PCIe?

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.

351 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
52.9 tok/s

32–85 · low confidence

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

32–85 · low confidence

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

32–85 · low confidence

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

32–85 · low confidence

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

32–85 · low confidence

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

32–85 · low confidence

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

29–78 · low confidence

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

29–77 · low confidence

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

29–77 · low confidence

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

29–77 · low confidence

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

29–77 · low confidence

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

26–70 · low confidence

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

26–70 · low confidence

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

26–70 · low confidence

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

26–70 · low confidence

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

26–70 · low confidence

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

26–69 · low confidence

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

25–68 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

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

24–65 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 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 E9390 PCIe 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
160 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
1.25 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
Ellesmere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Generation
Embedded(9000)
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Process size
14 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
Transistor density
24,600 K/mm²
Die size
232 mm²
Package
BGA-1401
Released
15 October 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
713 MHz
Boost clock
1.09 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
1,792
Texture mapping units
112
Render output units
32
L1 cache
16 KB
L2 cache
2 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)
3.9 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
3.9 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
243.9 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
35 GPixel/s
Texture rate
122 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
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Slot width
Single-slot
Dimensions
173 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.

DirectX
12.0
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
Shader model
6.7

Listings

Where to buy a Radeon E9390 PCIe

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

Capacity and bandwidth

Memory

8 GB

Bandwidth

160 GB/s

Largest model

Baichuan 1-13B

Radeon E9390 PCIe carries only 8 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 7.2 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 160 GB/s across a bus of 256 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 1.25 GHz. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

Put together, the largest model that fits is Baichuan 1-13B, 13.3B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 10.8 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Radeon E9390 PCIe is built on the graphics processor Ellesmere, 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 232 mm², holding 5.7 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 2019, roughly 6.9142200244632 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

3.9 TFLOPS

FP64

243.9 GFLOPS

On paper Radeon E9390 PCIe reaches 3.9 TFLOPS at half precision, and 3.9 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 243.9 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 a base of 713 MHz to a boost of 1.09 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 E9390 PCIe has an L1 cache of 16 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 2 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 1,792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 32 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

Radeon E9390 PCIe is rated at 75 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 173 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 Radeon E9390 PCIe

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 11.0 tok/s
  2. 02 Cambrian-1-13B 13B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2024 11.0 tok/s
  3. 03 Fugaku-LLM 13B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 11.0 tok/s
  4. 04 OpenThaiGPT v1.0.0 (13B) 13.1B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 10.9 tok/s
  5. 05 Aya 13B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2024 11.0 tok/s
  6. 06 Elyza 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 11.0 tok/s
  7. 07 NexusRaven-V2 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 11.0 tok/s
  8. 08 Baize-v2-13B (白泽) 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 11.0 tok/s
  9. 09 Stockmark-13B 13.2B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2023 10.8 tok/s
  10. 10 Baichuan 1-13B 13.3B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2023 10.8 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Radeon E9390 PCIe

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 52.9 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 52.9 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 52.9 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 52.9 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 52.9 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 52.9 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 48.9 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 48.1 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 48.1 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 48.1 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon E9390 PCIe

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

    Find the model in the table

    The table lists 351 models this card runs. Search narrows the list by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and against a card holding 8 GB so the setting is worth getting right.

  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

    Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 52.9 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Check the memory column before committing

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 8 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 Radeon E9390 PCIe.

Answers

Radeon E9390 PCIe — common questions

01

Radeon E9390 PCIe— which AI models can it run?

351 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.

02

Radeon E9390 PCIe— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 10.8 tokens per second and needs about 7.2 GB of the card's memory.

03

Radeon E9390 PCIe— 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 52.9 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.

04

Radeon E9390 PCIe— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q5_K_M, using about 7.0 GB of memory and generating around 21.0 tokens per second.

05

Radeon E9390 PCIe— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 12B at Q3_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 11.9 tokens per second.

06

Radeon E9390 PCIe— how much memory does it have?

This card has 8 GB of GDDR5. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 7.2 GB available for a model and its conversation.

07

Radeon E9390 PCIe— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 160 GB/s across a bus of 256 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.

08

Radeon E9390 PCIe— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR5 clocked at 1.25 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.

09

Radeon E9390 PCIe— who makes it?

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

10

Radeon E9390 PCIe— when was it released?

It was released in October 2019.

11

Radeon E9390 PCIe— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 75 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.

12

Radeon E9390 PCIe— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 16 KB, and the L2 cache is 2 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.

13

Radeon E9390 PCIe— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 3.9 TFLOPS at half precision and 3.9 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.

14

Radeon E9390 PCIe— 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.

15

Radeon E9390 PCIe— 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.

16

Radeon E9390 PCIe— 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 351 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

17

Radeon E9390 PCIe— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

It can be split, with the overflow held in system memory beyond the card's 8 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.

18

Would two Radeon E9390 PCIe cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 16 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

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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