Qwen2.5-Coder 14B · 62 cards measured first-party · Updated October 2026

How Fast Does Qwen2.5-Coder 14B Run on Each GPU?

Qwen2.5-Coder 14B is the practical local coding assistant: big enough to be genuinely useful, small enough at ~11.5GB to fit on hardware people actually own. If you want a coding model running on your own machine, this is the benchmark that matters.

Benchmarked weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-GGUF

Fastest we measured

NVIDIA B300

158.5 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B, the ceiling. Measured on our bench. 288GB of VRAM, $40,000 at launch.

Pros

• 158.5 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B
• 288GB, clears the Qwen2.5-Coder 14B floor
• Rentable by the hour rather than bought

Cons

• 1400W board rating
• Datacenter or workstation hardware, not a retail purchase

Best consumer card

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

149.8 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B, fastest card you can buy at retail. Measured on our bench. 32GB of VRAM, $1,999 at launch.

Pros

• 149.8 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B
• 32GB, clears the Qwen2.5-Coder 14B floor

Cons

• 575W board rating

Cheapest card that runs it

Intel Arc B580

33.0 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B, lowest launch price that still fits. Anchored estimate. 12GB of VRAM, $179 at launch.

Pros

• 33.0 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B
• 12GB, clears the Qwen2.5-Coder 14B floor

Cons

• 190W board rating

Best value

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

83.44 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B, most speed per dollar. Measured on our bench. 16GB of VRAM, $749 at launch. That is 111.4 tok/s per $1,000 of launch price.

Pros

• 83.44 tok/s on Qwen2.5-Coder 14B
• 16GB, clears the Qwen2.5-Coder 14B floor

Cons

• 300W board rating

Bandwidth-bound like the rest of the LLM ladder. What makes 14B interesting is that it's the point where the whole consumer market is still in play, so the ranking is a clean read on memory bandwidth across every tier, from datacenter HBM down to a mid-range GDDR card.

Because this workload is bandwidth-bound, the ranking above tracks memory bandwidth far more closely than core counts or price. A card with fewer tensor cores and faster memory will beat a card with the opposite.

That's the reason we run twelve workloads instead of publishing one score. A GPU isn't fast or slow. It's fast at some things and gated out of others, and which of those matters depends entirely on what you're actually going to run.

Our verdict

NVIDIA B300 tops our Qwen2.5-Coder 14B leaderboard at 158.5 tok/s (measured), 757% of the way clear of the slowest card that still fits. But the number that decides most purchases isn't on the chart. It's the 24 cards that can't run Qwen2.5-Coder 14B at all. This is a bandwidth workload: buy memory speed, not tensor cores.

FAQ

What is the fastest GPU for Qwen2.5-Coder 14B?

NVIDIA B300, at 158.5 tok/s on our bench, a first-party measurement. It carries 288GB of VRAM. Of the 102 cards we have Qwen2.5-Coder 14B data for, 78 can run it at all.

How much VRAM do I need for Qwen2.5-Coder 14B?

~11.5GB at Q4_K_M, comfortable on a 12GB card, easy on 16GB.

Why does the Qwen2.5-Coder 14B ranking look different from your other benchmarks?

Because this workload is bandwidth-bound, the ranking above tracks memory bandwidth far more closely than core counts or price. A card with fewer tensor cores and faster memory will beat a card with the opposite. That's why we publish twelve separate workloads rather than one blended score, the ordering genuinely changes depending on the job.

Are these Qwen2.5-Coder 14B numbers measured or estimated?

Both, and every row says which. 62 of the 102 cards here were rented and run by us on the same harness. The remainder are anchored estimates interpolated per workload against those measurements. We never blend the two silently, if a row says Estimated, we have not run that card.

Can I rent a GPU to run Qwen2.5-Coder 14B instead of buying one?

Yes, and for the cards at the top of this leaderboard it's the only realistic option, most of them have no retail channel at all. It's also how we got these numbers: we rented the hardware by the hour rather than buying it. That's worth considering before you spend on a card to find out whether it's fast enough.

Why publish cards that can't run Qwen2.5-Coder 14B?

Because it's the most useful thing we know. A card that can't load a model doesn't run it slowly, it doesn't run it. Most benchmark sites leave that as a blank cell or quietly drop to a smaller quantisation to produce a number. We publish it as a hard gate and score it zero, because 'this card cannot do the thing you want' is the answer to the question you were actually asking.

How we test

Every ranking on this page comes from our own benchmark runs, not vendor claims. Cards marked Measured were rented and run by us; cards marked Estimated are interpolated per workload against those measured anchors and are labelled on every row, we never blend the two silently. LLMs run on llama.cpp (llama-bench) at Q4_K_M with -p 512 -n 128. Diffusion and video run on diffusers/ComfyUI at BF16, with SDXL at FP16. Each workload gets a warmup pass plus multiple timed runs (5 for small LLMs, 3 for large models and images, 2 for video); we publish the mean as the result and the minimum as the 1% low. Run-to-run variance is under 0.5%. Telemetry, power, temperature, utilisation, clocks, peak VRAM, is sampled at 1 Hz for the duration of every run. Where a model exceeds a card's VRAM we publish a hard won't-fit result rather than quietly dropping to a smaller quantisation. A card that can't run a model scores zero on it. Silently swapping precision to make a number appear would make every number on this site meaningless. All figures are single-GPU, single-stream, batch-size-1. That is the honest way to measure what one card does for one user, and it is deliberately not how a datacenter serves a model. Vendor and MLPerf figures use large batches across many GPUs and will be far higher. Neither is wrong, they answer different questions. Ours answers 'what will this card do for me'.