Calculate the TPS of the PG506-207 on local AI models

NVIDIA 24 GB HBM2 933 GB/s April 2021

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

502 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Mixtral 8x7B

46.7B · Q3_K_M · 82.7 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

395 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a PG506-207?

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.

502 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
395 tok/s

336–474

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

336–474

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

237–632 · low confidence

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

237–632 · low confidence

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

237–632 · low confidence

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

237–632 · low confidence

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

220–585 · low confidence

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

216–575 · low confidence

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

216–575 · low confidence

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

216–575 · low confidence

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

216–575 · low confidence

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

198–527 · low confidence

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

198–527 · low confidence

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

198–527 · low confidence

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

198–527 · low confidence

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

273–386

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · low confidence

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

182–486 · 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

PG506-207 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
24 GB
Memory bandwidth
933 GB/s
Memory type
HBM2
Memory bus width
3,072 bit
Memory clock
1.22 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
GA100
Architecture
Ampere
Generation
Server Ampere(Axx)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
7 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
Transistor density
65,600 K/mm²
Die size
826 mm²
Package
BGA-2743
Released
12 April 2021

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
930 MHz
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
3,584
Texture mapping units
224
Render output units
96
Streaming multiprocessors
56
Tensor cores
224
L1 cache
192 KB
L2 cache
24 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)
10.3 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
10.3 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
5.2 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
138 GPixel/s
Texture rate
323 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)
165 W
Suggested power supply
450 W
Power connectors
8-pin EPS
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Slot width
Dual-slot
Dimensions
267 mm

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
8.0
OpenCL
3.0

Listings

Where to buy a PG506-207

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

24 GB

Bandwidth

933 GB/s

Largest model

Mixtral 8x7B

PG506-207 carries 24 GB of HBM2. That covers the mid-sized models most people actually run. Once the runtime and driver reserve their working space, roughly this much is left: 21.6 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 933 GB/s across a bus of 3,072 bits. Generating a token means reading every weight once, so that figure sets the pace more than any other number here, and at this level text arrives faster than most people read.

The figure is the bus width multiplied by a memory clock of 1.22 GHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.

Put together, the largest model that fits is Mixtral 8x7B, 46.7B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 82.7 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

PG506-207 is built on the graphics processor GA100, using the architecture Ampere from NVIDIA, as part of the generation Server Ampere(Axx).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 7 nm, with a die measuring 826 mm², holding 54.2 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 April 2021, roughly 5.3036951629441 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

10.3 TFLOPS

FP64

5.2 TFLOPS

Tensor cores

224

On paper PG506-207 reaches 10.3 TFLOPS at half precision, and 10.3 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 5.2 TFLOPS. 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 224 tensor cores across 56 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 a base of 930 MHz to a boost of 1.44 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

PG506-207 has an L1 cache of 192 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 24 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 3,584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 96 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

165 W

PG506-207 is rated at 165 W, and the suggested system power supply is 450 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 dual-slot, measuring 267 mm long, and needs 8-pin EPS. 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 4.0 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 PG506-207

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-Omni-30B-A3B 35.3B · Q4_K_M · Sep 2025 144 tok/s
  2. 02 InternVL2_5-38B 38.4B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2024 27.8 tok/s
  3. 03 TeleChat2-35B 35B · IQ4_XS · Oct 2024 27.7 tok/s
  4. 04 InternVL2-40B 40.1B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2024 26.6 tok/s
  5. 05 JIUTIAN-139MoE 38.8B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2024 27.5 tok/s
  6. 06 VILA1.5-40B 40B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 26.7 tok/s
  7. 07 LLaVA-NeXT-34B (LLaVA-1.6) 34.8B · IQ4_XS · Jan 2024 27.9 tok/s
  8. 08 Mixtral 8x7B 46.7B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 82.7 tok/s
  9. 09 Falcon-40B 40B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 26.7 tok/s
  10. 10 gpt-sw3-40b 40B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 26.7 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a PG506-207

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 395 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 395 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 395 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 395 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 395 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 395 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 366 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 359 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 359 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 359 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a PG506-207

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

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Set the context to your real working length. Short questions cost almost nothing, but a long document can consume a large share of 24 GB so the setting is worth getting right.

  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

    Read the speed and the range

    The figures are calculated, not measured. The fastest result on this card is 395 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 24 GB.

  6. 06

    Cross-check against other hardware

    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 right buy is PG506-207.

Answers

PG506-207 — common questions

01

PG506-207— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 165 W, and the suggested system power supply is 450 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.

02

PG506-207— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 192 KB, and the L2 cache is 24 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.

03

PG506-207— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 10.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 10.3 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.

04

PG506-207— how many tensor cores does it have?

It has 224 tensor cores across 56 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.

05

PG506-207— does it support CUDA?

Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 8.0. 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.

06

PG506-207— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 4.0 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.

07

PG506-207— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory comfortably covers the mid-sized models most people run locally and its bandwidth is high enough to generate text faster than most people read. In total it runs 502 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

08

PG506-207— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 24 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.

09

Would two PG506-207 cards be twice as fast?

Pairing them buys headroom rather than pace: 48 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single card.

10

PG506-207— which AI models can it run?

502 of the 679 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.

11

PG506-207— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Mixtral 8x7B at 46.7B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 82.7 tokens per second and needs about 21.0 GB of the card's memory.

12

PG506-207— 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 395 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.

13

PG506-207— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 59.0 tokens per second.

14

PG506-207— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q8_0, using about 17.5 GB of memory and generating around 137 tokens per second.

15

PG506-207— can it run 30B models?

Yes. For example it runs Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at Q4_K_M, using about 18.1 GB of memory and generating around 160 tokens per second.

16

PG506-207— how much memory does it have?

This card has 24 GB of HBM2. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 21.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

17

PG506-207— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 933 GB/s across a bus of 3,072 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.

18

PG506-207— what type of memory does it use?

It uses HBM2 clocked at 1.22 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.

19

PG506-207— who makes it?

This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 7 nm.

20

PG506-207— when was it released?

It was released in April 2021.

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Looking at it from the other side?

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