What can AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT run for chat?
Build: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)
Runs comfortably145 models
Ranked by fit for chat use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 1.6 GBHeadroom: 14.4 GB800tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.8 GBHeadroom: 13.2 GB282tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB436tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.2 GBHeadroom: 12.8 GB240tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.0 GBHeadroom: 4.0 GB200tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.8 GBHeadroom: 12.2 GBollama run alibayram/kumru:latest200tok/sEstimated
ollama run alibayram/kumru:latestQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB436tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB436tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.6 GBHeadroom: 12.4 GB200tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.3 GBHeadroom: 11.7 GB160tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 5.0 GBHeadroom: 11.0 GB130tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.2 GBHeadroom: 12.8 GB240tok/sEstimated
Runs with tradeoffs83 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.9 GBHeadroom: 3.1 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
44tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 14.9 GBHeadroom: 1.1 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-nemo:12b40tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-nemo:12bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 14.7 GBHeadroom: 1.3 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma3:12b40tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma3:12bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 15.1 GBHeadroom: 0.9 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.9 GB headroom left for context growth
24tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.9 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 27.7 GBHeadroom: 7.5 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
ollama run mistral-small:24b20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
ollama run mistral-small:24bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 20.9 GBHeadroom: 14.3 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~23% of layers run on CPU
20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~23% of layers run on CPU
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 27.7 GBHeadroom: 7.5 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 27.7 GBHeadroom: 7.5 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
What 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: 9 new comfortable, 102 new tradeoff
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • SmolLM2 135M Instruct
- • SmolLM2 360M Instruct
- • VBART Large (Turkish Summarization)
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: 24 new comfortable
- • Gemma 4 12B
- • Qwen3.5 9B
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
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: 80 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
- • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- • Qwen3.6 27B
- • Qwen 3 32B
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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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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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