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16 GB VRAMenthusiastReviewed November 2026

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Refreshed 6900 XT with faster GDDR6 (576 GB/s). 16 GB VRAM, slightly more compute. AMD does not list this card as supported for ROCm, though Ollama lists it under its ROCm backend on Linux. The bandwidth bump matters for inference.

Released 2022·Launch MSRP $1,099 (2022) · Now sells well below its launch price on the used market.·576 GB/s memory bandwidth
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RUNLOCALAI SCORE
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316/ 1000
CC-tier
Estimated
Throughput
167/ 500
VRAM-fit
140/ 200
Ecosystem
130/ 200
Efficiency
14/ 100

Sub-scores sum to 451 / 1000. Headline = 451 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 316. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →

Extrapolated from 576 GB/s bandwidth — 57.6 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Comfortable at 14B and below — snappy enough for a coding agent.

7B chat✓
Comfortable
14B chat✓
Comfortable
32B chat✗
Doesn't fit
70B chat✗
Doesn't fit
Coding agent✓
Comfortable
Vision (≤8B VLM)~
Tight
Long context (32K)✓
Comfortable
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

Refreshed 6900 XT with faster GDDR6 (576 GB/s). 16 GB VRAM, slightly more compute. AMD does not list this card as supported for ROCm, though Ollama lists it under its ROCm backend on Linux. The bandwidth bump matters for inference.

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

VRAM16 GB
Power draw (peak)335 W
Released2022
MSRP$1099
Backends
ROCm
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT with usable context.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Kokoro 82M
0.082B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
BGE Large EN v1.5
0.335B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
Qwen 3 0.6B
0.6B · qwen · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet
XTTS v2
0.46B · other · fits by VRAM, no benchmark yet

Frequently asked

What models can AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT run?

With 16GB VRAM, the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT runs models up to 14B in 4-bit, or 7B at higher quantizations. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT support CUDA?

No — AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is an AMD card. Use ROCm (Linux) or the Vulkan backend in llama.cpp instead. CUDA-only tools won't work.

How much does AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT cost?

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT launched at an MSRP of $1,099 in 2022. Now sells well below its launch price on the used market. Retail prices change often, so check the current price with a retailer before you buy.

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