AMD · consumer

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Radeon RX 7900 XT has 20 GB of VRAM at 800 GB/s — about 18.60 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1598 of 2118 indexed models fit at 128K context with q8_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
20 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
800 GB/s
320-bit bus
Tensor FP16
dense
TDP
315 W
$899 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1339vision language 156video 16audio asr 39embedding 26image 1audio tts 21

What fits at 128K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1598 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
grug-27bQ3_K_M27.4B13.38 GiB4.25 GiB18.59 GiB0.01 GiB28±26.5%
Carnice-V2-27bQ3_K_M27.4B13.38 GiB4.25 GiB18.59 GiB0.01 GiB28±26.5%
Fara1.5-27BQ3_K_M27.4B13.38 GiB4.25 GiB18.59 GiB0.01 GiB28±26.5%
reka-flash-3.1I1-IQ3_XS20.9B8.85 GiB8.77 GiB18.59 GiB0.01 GiB28±26.5%
reka-flash-3IQ3_XS20.9B8.85 GiB8.77 GiB18.59 GiB0.01 GiB28±26.5%
dolphin-2.6-mixtral-8x7bMoEI1-IQ1_S46.7B9.15 GiB8.50 GiB18.58 GiB0.02 GiB26±37%
xLAM-8x7b-rMoEIQ1_S46.7B9.15 GiB8.50 GiB18.58 GiB0.02 GiB26±37%
Apriel-1.6-15b-ThinkerI1-Q2_K_S14.9B4.88 GiB12.75 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-InstructQ4_K_S10.7B7.01 GiB10.63 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-27B-uncensored-heretic-v2Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-27B-Uncensored-AggressiveI1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen-3.5-Opus-GLM-27BI1-Q3_K_L26.9B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedI1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
KoQweopus-3.5-27B-experimentalI1-Q3_K_L27.8B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Webcoda-AI-27BI1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-27B-imabari-v2I1-Q3_K_L27.8B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-27B-uncensored-heretic-v1I1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-Queen-27BI1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
GRaPE-2-ProI1-Q3_K_L27.8B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Huihui-Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedQ3_K_L27.8B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedQ3_K_L26.9B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-hereticQ3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-27B-Claude-Opus-Reasoning-Distill-v2-hereticQ3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Darwin-28B-REASONI1-Q3_K_L26.9B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-abliteratedI1-Q3_K_L27.8B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-27B-WebNovel-Writer-zhI1-Q3_K_L26.9B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.5-27B_Homebrew-v2I1-Q3_K_L27.4B13.36 GiB4.25 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Frank-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q4_126.5B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-hereticMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliteratedMoEI1-Q4_126.5B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-local-abliterated-sota-internal-t34MoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-hereticMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterixMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-antislopMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-Distill-v2MoEI1-Q4_126.5B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoEI1-Q4_126.5B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-AbliteratedMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16MoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-araMoEI1-Q4_125.8B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
gemma-4-26B-A4BMoEQ4_126.5B14.87 GiB2.81 GiB18.57 GiB0.03 GiB28±26.5%
Qwen3.6-34B-80L-Fable-5-HereticI1-Q2_K33.4B12.27 GiB5.31 GiB18.55 GiB0.05 GiB28±26.5%
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-BF16-abliteratedIQ4_XS13.9B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
Ministral-3-14B-abliteratedIQ4_XS13.9B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-UncensoredIQ4_XS13.9B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
Forsaken-Void-12BI1-Q4_K_M12.2B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
Silver-Siren-ST-12BI1-Q4_K_M12.2B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12BI1-Q4_K_M12.2B6.96 GiB10.63 GiB18.54 GiB0.06 GiB28±26.5%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Measured on this card

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation11.45 it/s7.7516.22328
Prompt processing3219.16 tok/s2738.953754.6863
Text generation101.20 tok/s99.80107.4539
Benchmarked· n=328

Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a Radeon RX 7900 XT run?
1598 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a Radeon RX 7900 XT at 131,072 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being grug-27b at Q3_K_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a Radeon RX 7900 XT actually have?
Its nameplate is 20 GB, but about 18.60 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a Radeon RX 7900 XT fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 800 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.
Radeon RX 7900 XT — what AI models can it run locally? — ossmodeldb