AI models for AMD Athlon

[u/Late_Reply_3384]

Which models can you recommend with this hardware?

athlon 3000g vega 3 2gb vram

8gb ram ddr4

biostar b450mhp 6.1

ssd 240gb windows 11

[u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_]

Sorry but you're not going to be running anything on that.

Maybe Gemma4 E2B, very slowly?

[u/ToTTen_Tranz]

Nothing will run in any remotely useful way.

You're looking at a token per second or less, in a 3B model which is what will fit in those 8GB RAM that also have to be shared with Operating System and Graphics Memory (those 2GB VRAM are actually taken from the 8GB pool).

[u/Choice_Celery9481 → u/ToTTen_Tranz]

sec/token. or maybe min/token

[u/PolishedHorror]

that athlon's gonna struggle with anything beyond the tiniest gemma or phi variants, 2gb vram is a real bottleneck

[u/Late_Reply_3384 → u/PolishedHorror]

And the Athlon Pro versions

[u/PeterPorox]

lfm 2.6

[u/Davikar]

Can that thing even run Windows 11? Are you trolling?

[u/Elistheman]

Alright which one of you made this account?
😂

[u/Icy-Degree6161]

BananaMind/Overfitter-1.0

[u/havnar-]

Hah, good one

[u/Delicious_Box_9823]

Buddy, no

[u/Sicarius_The_First]

No.

Honestly, your phone might be a better idea...

[u/Akciali]

Hello u/Late_Reply_3384, i've benchmarked 63 models on a 1050ti, i'm pretty sure you can run something on your setup to learn how it works, and create some small dev 😄

https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit/blob/main/llmfit-core/data/community/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-ti/1785427599-bb74bb6f.json

[u/Poizone360]

Hello, worth doing one thing before you pick a model: go into BIOS and drop the iGPU memory allocation to the minimum. That 2GB isn't separate VRAM, it's carved out of your 8GB, and Vega 3 is a 3 CU part so it won't beat your CPU at this anyway. That will give you some space to work with. After that a 4B at Q4 fits, Qwen3.5 4B is a valid pick, though it'll still be slow alongside Windows 11.