Radeon RX 9070 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT: 16 GB of memory at 640 GB/s. Below: the open models it can run, estimated at 16 GB with an 8K context. 16 GB of VRAM at 640 GB/s for $599 at launch, with FP8 support in RDNA 4; models up to about 24B fit at 4-bit.
Last updated: 2026-10-14
Specifications
What it can run
Best-quality quantization that fits with a 8K context, and the estimated generation speed. Estimates, not benchmarks. See the methodology.
| Model | Params | Best quant | Memory | tok/s (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | 25.2B (3.8B) | Q4_K_M | 15.7 GiB | 194 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506) | 24B | Q4_K_M | 16.0 GiB | 31 |
| Magistral Small 1.2 (2509) | 24B | Q4_K_M | 16.0 GiB | 31 |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct (2512) | 24B | Q4_K_M | 16.0 GiB | 31 |
| gpt-oss-20b | 21B (3.6B) | Q5_K_M | 15.3 GiB | 175 |
| Phi-4 (14B) | 14B | Q6_K | 13.3 GiB | 39 |
| Gemma 3 12B IT | 12B | Q8_0 | 13.8 GiB | 35 |
| Gemma 4 12B Unified IT | 11.95B | Q8_0 | 13.3 GiB | 35 |
| Qwen3.5-9B | 9B | Q8_0 | 10.1 GiB | 47 |
| Qwen3-8B | 8.2B | Q8_0 | 10.1 GiB | 51 |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B | 8.19B | Q8_0 | 10.1 GiB | 51 |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 8B | Q8_0 | 9.8 GiB | 53 |
| Gemma 4 E4B IT | 8B | Q8_0 | 9.1 GiB | 53 |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 3.21B | FP16 | 7.7 GiB | 70 |
| Kimi K2.6 | 1000B (32B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 (671B) | 671B (37B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | 284B (13B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 180B (6B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | 122B (10B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B (2603) | 119B (6.5B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| gpt-oss-120b | 117B (5.1B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct | 109B (17B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| GLM-4.5-Air | 106B (12B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B-A3B) | 80B (3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 70B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 35B (3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | 35B (3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3-32B | 32.8B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | 32.76B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Gemma 4 31B IT | 30.7B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B (2507) | 30.5B (3.3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | 30.5B (3.3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B) | 30B (3B) | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.5-27B | 27B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 27B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 27B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | 27B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
Prices
Latest price at each shop, as listed on the day we checked.
| Region | Shop | Listing | Price | Per GB | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 原價屋 CoolPC | ｛華擎 RX9070XT Challenger 16GB｝2970MHz/29cm/三風扇/註五年保Line on the shop's public price list (no per-product page); list stamped 2026/10/14 15:47 | NT$29,890 | NT$1,868/GB | 2026-10-14 |
| Taiwan | 欣亞數位 Sinya | 撼訊 Reaper RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6 遊蕩者 (std:2970HMz/三風扇/三年保/MIT台灣製/長28.9cm) | NT$30,990 | NT$1,937/GB | 2026-10-14 |
| US | Newegg | ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 5.0 x16 Graphics Card RX9070XT CL 16G | US$879.99 | US$55/GB | 2026-10-14 |
- Taiwan value: about 92.4 tok/s on Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, 8K), or 3.1 tok/s per NT$1,000.
- US value: about 92.4 tok/s on Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, 8K), or 10.5 tok/s per US$100.
A price history chart appears once we have checked this device on two or more days.
All prices →Frequently asked questions
Which LLMs can the Radeon RX 9070 XT run?
With 16 GB and an 8K context, the largest models that fit include: Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506), Magistral Small 1.2 (2509), Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct (2512), gpt-oss-20b. See the full table below.
How fast is the Radeon RX 9070 XT for local LLMs?
Generation speed is mostly set by memory bandwidth (640 GB/s). For Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at Q8_0, expect roughly 53 tokens/s; bigger models are slower.
Can the Radeon RX 9070 XT run 70B models?
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not fit on the Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB), even at Q4_K_M with an 8K context.