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RUNLOCALAI · v38
Will it run? / AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT / long context

What can AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT run for long context?

Build: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp (Vulkan)
AnyChatCodingAgentsReasoningVisionLong contextCreative

Runs comfortably
113 models

Ranked by fit for long context use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.

#1Ministral 3B Instruct
3B
mistral
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.4 GBHeadroom: 11.6 GB
160
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.81 GB
KV cache
1.50 GB
Activations
0.10 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#2Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct
3.8B
phi
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 7.1 GBHeadroom: 8.9 GB
ollama run phi3.5:3.8b
72
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.04 GB
KV cache
1.90 GB
Activations
0.21 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#3Codestral Mamba 7B
7B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 8.9 GBHeadroom: 7.1 GB
69
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#4Falcon Mamba 7B
7B
falcon
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 8.9 GBHeadroom: 7.1 GB
69
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.23 GB
KV cache
3.50 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#5Gemma 4 E4B (Effective 4B)
4B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 7.5 GBHeadroom: 8.5 GB
ollama run gemma4:e4b
68
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.25 GB
KV cache
2.00 GB
Activations
0.22 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#6Command R7B (12-2024)
8B
command-r
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.1 GBHeadroom: 5.9 GB
60
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.83 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#7Ministral 8B Instruct
8B
mistral
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.1 GBHeadroom: 5.9 GB
60
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
4.83 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.25 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#8ColPali v1.3
3B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 0VRAM: 2.9 GBHeadroom: 13.1 GB
160
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
1.81 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.09 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#9Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 9.3 GBHeadroom: 6.7 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:7b
39
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
7.44 GB
KV cache
0.47 GB
Activations
0.38 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#10Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB
ollama run qwen3:14b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#11Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB
ollama run qwen2.5:14b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
#12Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B
llama
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GB
ollama run llama3.1:8b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
1.07 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
65 models

Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.

Nemotron 3 Nano (30B-A3B)
30B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 35.0 GBHeadroom: 0.2 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
ollama run nemotron3:nano
16
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
15.00 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat
15.7B
deepseek
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.9 GBHeadroom: 3.1 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.1 GB headroom left for context growth
200
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
9.48 GB
KV cache
1.96 GB
Activations
0.48 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct
12B
mistral
Commercial OK
Quant: Q5_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 15.7 GBHeadroom: 0.3 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 0.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-nemo:12b
35
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.25 GB
KV cache
6.00 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 13.9 GBHeadroom: 2.1 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.1 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:8b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Gemma 4 Turkish 26B (4B active)
26B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 30.5 GBHeadroom: 4.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~48% of layers run on CPU
18
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
15.70 GB
KV cache
13.00 GB
Activations
0.79 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Gemma 3 27B
27B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 31.6 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~49% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma3:27b
18
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
16.30 GB
KV cache
13.50 GB
Activations
0.82 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 35.0 GBHeadroom: 0.2 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b
16
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
15.00 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.5 GBHeadroom: 10.7 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:31b
15
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.72 GB
KV cache
3.88 GB
Activations
0.94 GB
Runtime
1.00 GB
Model details →

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: 73 new comfortable, 82 new tradeoff

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
Shop this upgrade↗

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: 88 new comfortable

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
Shop this upgrade↗

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: 123 new comfortable

  • • all-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • • Piper
  • • Whisper Tiny
  • • Whisper Base
Shop this upgrade↗

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Won't run
top 5 popular models

Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)
1600B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)
397B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B MoE)
284B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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How to read these numbers

Measured here
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Source-backed
Source-backed / community - a reproduced public source supports the speed, but it is not labeled as owner-measured.

Extrapolated
Extrapolated - predicted from a measured benchmark on similar-bandwidth hardware.

Estimated
Estimated - formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture; not a benchmark row.

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