What can AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT run for creative?
Build: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)
Runs comfortably131 models
Ranked by fit for creative use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.2 GBHeadroom: 5.8 GBollama run hermes3:8b60tok/sEstimated
ollama run hermes3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GBollama run gemma2:9b53tok/sEstimated
ollama run gemma2:9bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.4 GBHeadroom: 11.6 GB160tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.4 GBHeadroom: 11.6 GB160tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.3 GBHeadroom: 5.7 GBollama run dolphin3:8b60tok/sEstimated
ollama run dolphin3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 3.2 GBHeadroom: 12.8 GB240tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 4.3 GBHeadroom: 11.7 GBollama run gemma4:e2b136tok/sEstimated
ollama run gemma4:e2bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.8 GBHeadroom: 13.2 GB282tok/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: 8,192VRAM: 3.2 GBHeadroom: 12.8 GB240tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 2.4 GBHeadroom: 13.6 GB240tok/sEstimated
Runs with tradeoffs83 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.0 GBHeadroom: 3.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
160tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 4,096VRAM: 15.0 GBHeadroom: 1.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.0 GB headroom left for context growth
200tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.0 GB headroom left for context growth
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.0 GBHeadroom: 3.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
200tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 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 dolphin-mistral:24b20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~42% of layers run on CPU
ollama run dolphin-mistral:24bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.0 GBHeadroom: 1.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12b40tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run gemma4:12bQuant: 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: 8,192VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3.5:9b53tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3.5:9bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 12.3 GBHeadroom: 3.7 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.7 GB headroom left for context growth
48tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.7 GB headroom left for context growth
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: 23 new comfortable, 102 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: 38 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Gemma 4 12B
- • Qwen3.5 9B
- • Gemma 3 270M
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: 94 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
- • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- • Qwen3.6 27B
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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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