Calculate the TPS of the Ryzen Z2 A GPU on local AI models

AMD 16 GB LPDDR5 102 GB/s January 2025

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

432 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

31.6B · Q3_K_M · 16.1 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

33.8 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Ryzen Z2 A 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.

432 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
33.8 tok/s

20–54 · low confidence

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

20–54 · low confidence

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

20–54 · low confidence

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

20–54 · low confidence

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

20–54 · low confidence

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

20–54 · low confidence

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

19–50 · low confidence

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

18–49 · low confidence

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

18–49 · low confidence

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

18–49 · low confidence

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

18–49 · low confidence

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

17–45 · low confidence

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

17–45 · low confidence

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

17–45 · low confidence

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

17–45 · low confidence

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

17–44 · low confidence

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

16–43 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · low confidence

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

16–42 · 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

Ryzen Z2 A 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
16 GB
Memory bandwidth
102 GB/s
Memory type
LPDDR5
Memory bus width
128 bit
Memory clock
800 MHz

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
Van Gogh
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Generation
Console GPU(AMD)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
7 nm
Transistors
2.4 billion
Transistor density
14,700 K/mm²
Die size
163 mm²
Released
1 January 2025

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 GHz
Boost clock
1.6 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
512
Texture mapping units
32
Render output units
16
Ray tracing cores
8
L1 cache
128 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)
3.3 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
1.6 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
102.4 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
26 GPixel/s
Texture rate
51 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)
15 W
Display outputs
1x USB Type-C

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
12.2
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
2.0
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a Ryzen Z2 A 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

16 GB

Bandwidth

102 GB/s

Largest model

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

16 GB of LPDDR5 puts the Ryzen Z2 A GPU comfortably into small and mid-sized models, with roughly 14.4 GB usable once the driver overhead is taken out. The largest models are out of reach without splitting them.

At 102 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.

The figure is the memory clock — 800 MHz here — multiplied by the bus width. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

The biggest thing it holds is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B (31.6B) at Q3_K_M compression, for about 16.1 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU is built on the Van Gogh graphics processor, using AMD's RDNA 2.0 architecture, as part of the Console GPU(AMD) generation.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 7 nm process, with a die measuring 163 mm², holding 2.4 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 2025, roughly 1 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

3.3 TFLOPS

FP64

102.4 GFLOPS

On paper the Ryzen Z2 A GPU reaches 3.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 1.6 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 102.4 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.

Clocks run from 1 GHz at base to 1.6 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 Ryzen Z2 A GPU has 128 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 512 shading units, 32 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

15 W

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU is rated at 15 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 extremes

The largest AI models that run on a Ryzen Z2 A 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 North Mini Code 30B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2026 16.9 tok/s
  2. 02 Qwen 3.6-27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2026 3.4 tok/s
  3. 03 Qwen3.5-27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2026 3.4 tok/s
  4. 04 Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B 31.6B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 16.1 tok/s
  5. 05 Nomos 1 30B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 16.9 tok/s
  6. 06 C2S-Scale 27B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2025 3.4 tok/s
  7. 07 Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT 27B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2025 3.4 tok/s
  8. 08 ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B 28B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 18.1 tok/s
  9. 09 Qwen3-30B-A3B 30B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 16.9 tok/s
  10. 10 Gemma 3 QAT 27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 3.4 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Ryzen Z2 A 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 33.8 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 33.8 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 33.8 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 33.8 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 33.8 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 33.8 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 31.3 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 30.8 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 30.8 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 30.8 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Ryzen Z2 A 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

    Every one of the 432 models this Ryzen Z2 A GPU runs is in the table above. Search narrows it by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. With 16 GB to work in, that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.

  3. 03

    Set a minimum quality if you need one

    Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 33.8 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B, and which inference software you use moves that by thirty to fifty per cent.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    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 16 GB available.

  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 Ryzen Z2 A GPU is the right buy for it or merely a card that fits.

Answers

Ryzen Z2 A GPU — common questions

01

How many tokens per second does a Ryzen Z2 A GPU produce?

It depends on the model. On a Ryzen Z2 A GPU the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 33.8 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.

02

Can a Ryzen Z2 A GPU run a 7B model?

Yes. For example a Ryzen Z2 A GPU runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 5.1 tokens per second.

03

Can a Ryzen Z2 A GPU run a 13B model?

Yes. For example a Ryzen Z2 A GPU runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q6_K, using about 13.7 GB of memory and generating around 17.1 tokens per second.

04

Can a Ryzen Z2 A GPU run a 30B model?

Yes. For example a Ryzen Z2 A GPU runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q3_K_M, using about 12.9 GB of memory and generating around 18.1 tokens per second.

05

How much memory does a Ryzen Z2 A GPU have?

A Ryzen Z2 A GPU has 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 14.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.

06

What is the memory bandwidth of a Ryzen Z2 A GPU?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU has 102 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.

07

What type of memory does a Ryzen Z2 A GPU use?

It uses LPDDR5 clocked at 800 MHz. 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.

08

Who makes the Ryzen Z2 A GPU?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU is a AMD product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 7 nm process.

09

When was the Ryzen Z2 A GPU released?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU was released in January 2025.

10

How much power does a Ryzen Z2 A GPU use?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU has a rated board power of 15 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.

11

How much cache does a Ryzen Z2 A GPU have?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU has 128 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.

12

What are the TFLOPS of a Ryzen Z2 A GPU?

The Ryzen Z2 A GPU is rated at 3.3 TFLOPS at half precision and 1.6 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.

13

Does the Ryzen Z2 A GPU support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and the Ryzen Z2 A 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.

14

Is the Ryzen Z2 A GPU good for running local AI models?

Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 432 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

15

Can a Ryzen Z2 A GPU run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 16 GB is possible and usually a false economy: the system-memory portion is slow enough to dominate the result.

16

Would two Ryzen Z2 A GPU cards be twice as fast?

Pairing Ryzen Z2 A GPU cards buys headroom rather than pace: 32 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

17

What AI models can a Ryzen Z2 A GPU run?

432 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a Ryzen Z2 A 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.

18

What is the largest AI model a Ryzen Z2 A GPU can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a Ryzen Z2 A GPU is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 16.1 tokens per second and needs about 14.4 GB of the card's memory.

The other direction

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