What can AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT run for creative?
Build: RX 9070 XT + Ryzen 7 9700X + 32GB DDR5 (Linux/ROCm)
Runs comfortably115 models
Ranked by fit for creative use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.2 GBHeadroom: 4.8 GBollama run hermes3:8b73tok/sEstimated
ollama run hermes3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.4 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GB196tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.4 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GB196tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.3 GBHeadroom: 4.7 GBollama run dolphin3:8b73tok/sEstimated
ollama run dolphin3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.2 GBHeadroom: 11.8 GB293tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 5.3 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GBollama run gemma4:e2b167tok/sEstimated
ollama run gemma4:e2bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GBollama run codegemma:7b84tok/sEstimated
ollama run codegemma:7bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.8 GBHeadroom: 12.2 GB345tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.8 GBHeadroom: 11.2 GBollama run alibayram/kumru:latest244tok/sEstimated
ollama run alibayram/kumru:latestQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 6.7 GBHeadroom: 9.3 GB140tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.2 GBHeadroom: 11.8 GB293tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 3.4 GBHeadroom: 12.6 GB293tok/sEstimated
Runs with tradeoffs98 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.6 GBHeadroom: 3.4 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.4 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma2:9b65tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.4 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma2:9bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.0 GBHeadroom: 3.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
244tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 14.0 GBHeadroom: 2.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.0 GB headroom left for context growth
196tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 16.0 GBHeadroom: 0.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.0 GB headroom left for context growth
244tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 14.0 GBHeadroom: 2.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.0 GB headroom left for context growth
244tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.7 GBHeadroom: 3.3 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run alibayram/turkish-gemma-9b-v0.1:latest64tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run alibayram/turkish-gemma-9b-v0.1:latestQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 16.0 GBHeadroom: 0.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12b49tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.7 GBHeadroom: 0.3 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma3:12b49tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma3:12bWhat if you upgraded?
Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.
+32 GB system RAM
~$80–150
Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.
Unlocks: 23 new comfortable, 116 new tradeoff
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • SmolLM2 135M Instruct
- • TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0
Upgrade to AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
~$729
20 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~644 GB/s to ~800 GB/s.
Unlocks: 45 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
- • Gemma 4 12B
- • Qwen3.5 9B
Add a second AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
~$649
Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.
Unlocks: 100 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
- • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
- • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
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Won't runtop 5 popular models
Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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