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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile run GPT-2 (1.5B)?

Yes โ€” here's how fast and up to what context, with real measured numbers.

GPT-2 (1.5B) on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 no โ€” โ€” โ€”
Q8 yes 10k 54.5-65 t/s ~19.5-23.2 (slow)
Q4 yes 20k 97.3-116 t/s ~34.8-41.4 (slow)

Estimate (memory-bound). Beyond "max context" the KV cache spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and speed drops to the "beyond" figure.

FAQ

Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile run GPT-2 (1.5B)?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~97.3-116 tok/s and fits up to 20k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~34.8-41.4 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 20k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.