Calculate the TPS of the AeroBox GPU on local AI models

AMD 8 GB DDR3 68 GB/s March 2020

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 · 4.6 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

22.5 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a AeroBox GPU?

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
22.5 tok/s

14–36 · low confidence

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

14–36 · low confidence

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

14–36 · low confidence

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

14–36 · low confidence

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

14–36 · low confidence

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

14–36 · low confidence

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

13–33 · low confidence

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

12–33 · low confidence

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

12–33 · low confidence

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

12–33 · low confidence

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

12–33 · low confidence

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

11–30 · low confidence

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

11–30 · low confidence

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

11–30 · low confidence

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

11–30 · low confidence

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

11–29 · low confidence

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

11–29 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · low confidence

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

10–28 · 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

AeroBox GPU 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
68 GB/s
Memory type
DDR3
Memory bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
1.07 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
Kryptos
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Generation
Console GPU(Chuwi)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
16 nm
Released
13 March 2020

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
935 MHz
Boost clock
985 MHz

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
896
Texture mapping units
56
Render output units
16

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)
3.5 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
1.8 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
110.3 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
16 GPixel/s
Texture rate
55 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)
100 W
Dimensions
289 mm × 56 mm
Display outputs
1x DVI

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
11.1
Vulkan
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
Shader model
5.1

Listings

Where to buy a AeroBox GPU

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

68 GB/s

Largest model

Baichuan 1-13B

At 8 GB of DDR3 the AeroBox GPU 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.

At 68 GB/s across a 256-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 1.07 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.

The practical ceiling is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B, held at Q3_K_M and running at roughly 4.6 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The AeroBox GPU is built on the Kryptos graphics processor, using AMD's GCN 1.0 architecture, as part of the Console GPU(Chuwi) generation.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process. 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 March 2020, roughly 6 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

3.5 TFLOPS

FP64

110.3 GFLOPS

On paper the AeroBox GPU reaches 3.5 TFLOPS at half precision and 1.8 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 110.3 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 935 MHz at base to 985 MHz 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

There are 896 shading units, 56 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

100 W

The AeroBox GPU is rated at 100 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.

measuring 289 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.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a AeroBox GPU

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 4.7 tok/s
  2. 02 Cambrian-1-13B 13B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2024 4.7 tok/s
  3. 03 Fugaku-LLM 13B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 4.7 tok/s
  4. 04 OpenThaiGPT v1.0.0 (13B) 13.1B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 4.6 tok/s
  5. 05 Aya 13B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2024 4.7 tok/s
  6. 06 Elyza 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 4.7 tok/s
  7. 07 NexusRaven-V2 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 4.7 tok/s
  8. 08 Baize-v2-13B (白泽) 13B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 4.7 tok/s
  9. 09 Stockmark-13B 13.2B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2023 4.6 tok/s
  10. 10 Baichuan 1-13B 13.3B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2023 4.6 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a AeroBox GPU

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 22.5 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 22.5 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 22.5 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 22.5 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 22.5 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 22.5 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 20.9 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 20.5 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 20.5 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 20.5 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a AeroBox GPU

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

    All 337 models the AeroBox GPU handles are already listed. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.

  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

    Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 22.5 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B, and which inference software you use moves that by thirty to fifty per cent.

  5. 05

    Check the memory column before committing

    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

    Each model page repeats this calculation for the whole catalogue. Worth a look before deciding: it shows what else runs the same model, and how the AeroBox GPU compares.

Answers

AeroBox GPU — common questions

01

Does the AeroBox GPU support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and the AeroBox GPU 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.

02

Is the AeroBox GPU 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 337 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

03

Can a AeroBox GPU run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 8 GB is possible and usually a false economy: the system-memory portion is slow enough to dominate the result.

04

Would two AeroBox GPU 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 AeroBox GPU.

05

What AI models can a AeroBox GPU run?

337 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a AeroBox GPU 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.

06

What is the largest AI model a AeroBox GPU can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a AeroBox GPU is Baichuan 1-13B at 13.3B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 4.6 tokens per second and needs about 7.2 GB of the card's memory.

07

How many tokens per second does a AeroBox GPU produce?

It depends on the model. On a AeroBox GPU the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 22.5 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.

08

Can a AeroBox GPU run a 7B model?

Yes. For example a AeroBox GPU runs MetaMath 7B (LLaMa finetune) at Q4_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 7.4 tokens per second.

09

Can a AeroBox GPU run a 13B model?

Yes. For example a AeroBox GPU runs Gemma 4 12B at Q3_K_M, using about 6.5 GB of memory and generating around 5.1 tokens per second.

10

How much memory does a AeroBox GPU have?

A AeroBox GPU has 8 GB of DDR3 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.

11

What is the memory bandwidth of a AeroBox GPU?

The AeroBox GPU has 68 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.

12

What type of memory does a AeroBox GPU use?

It uses DDR3 clocked at 1.07 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.

13

Who makes the AeroBox GPU?

The AeroBox GPU is a AMD product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process.

14

When was the AeroBox GPU released?

The AeroBox GPU was released in March 2020.

15

How much power does a AeroBox GPU use?

The AeroBox GPU has a rated board power of 100 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.

16

What are the TFLOPS of a AeroBox GPU?

The AeroBox GPU is rated at 3.5 TFLOPS at half precision and 1.8 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.

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.

All GPUs