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Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB)

The Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB) provides 32 GB of memory with 643 GB/s bandwidth, supporting local inference via ROCm and Vulkan acceleration.

Memory

32 GB

Usable Memory Ceiling

32 GB

Bandwidth

643.2 GB/s

Max Inference Class

32B Models (Q4)

TDP

300W

VRAM Scaling by Context Length

Estimated memory requirements as context length increases. Curves crossing above the reference line indicate Out of Memory (OOM).

DeepSeek-R1 7B (7B)Qwen3.5-9B (9B)Muse Glimmer 30B (30B)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (80B (79B active))

Precision:

Best Models to Run on Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB)

Inference throughput, memory compatibility, and generation speeds for open-weights LLMs on Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB).

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Context:

KV Cache:

GPUs:

RankModelParametersPrecisionTPS (Approx.)TTFTCan Run

#32

Qwen 3.8 27B

27B

INT4
Q8

32 tok/s

18 tok/s

~1.6s

~1.7s

#74

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B

36B (4B active)

INT4

122 tok/s

~313 ms

#82

Qwen3.5-27B

27B

INT4
Q8

32 tok/s

18 tok/s

~1.6s

~1.7s

#88

Sarvam-30B

32B (2.4B active)

INT4

153 tok/s

~220 ms

#95

Muse Glimmer 30B

30B

INT4
Q8

29 tok/s

15 tok/s

~1.7s

~2.1s

#96

Phi-4 Reasoning Plus

14B

INT4
Q8
FP16

42 tok/s

29 tok/s

15 tok/s

~838 ms

~849 ms

~1.0s

#97

MiMo V2 Flash

15B (309B active)

INT4
Q8

3 tok/s

2 tok/s

~17.2s

~17.4s

#108

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

139 tok/s

~256 ms

#110

Gemma 4 12B

11.95B

INT4
Q8
FP16

48 tok/s

33 tok/s

18 tok/s

~718 ms

~728 ms

~812 ms

#112

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

139 tok/s

~256 ms

#116

Gemma 4 26B A4B

25.2B (3.8B active)

INT4
Q8

129 tok/s

88 tok/s

~287 ms

~315 ms

#118

K2 Horizon 7B

7B

INT4
Q8
FP16

98 tok/s

63 tok/s

35 tok/s

~425 ms

~431 ms

~443 ms

#130

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

30B (3B active)

INT4

59 tok/s

~261 ms

#132

Qwen3.5-4B

4B

INT4
Q8
FP16

141 tok/s

96 tok/s

56 tok/s

~252 ms

~255 ms

~262 ms

#133

Qwen3.5-9B

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

81 tok/s

51 tok/s

28 tok/s

~541 ms

~549 ms

~565 ms

#136

GPT-OSS 20B

21B (3.6B active)

INT4
Q8

66 tok/s

54 tok/s

~277 ms

~302 ms

#137

Gemma 4 31B

30.7B

INT4
Q8

29 tok/s

15 tok/s

~1.8s

~2.1s

#141

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B

3.5B (30B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

28 tok/s

17 tok/s

9 tok/s

~1.7s

~1.7s

~1.8s

#143

Qwen3-30B-A3B

30B (3B active)

INT4
Q8

141 tok/s

95 tok/s

~251 ms

~297 ms

#149

Granite 4.2 8B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

89 tok/s

56 tok/s

31 tok/s

~482 ms

~489 ms

~504 ms

Inference Capacity

Maximum model parameter class runnable by weight precision.

Context:

4-bit

Q4

32B Models

8-bit

Q8

14B Models

16-bit

FP16

14B Models

Fine-Tuning Capacity

Hardware capacity for local training and adapter fine-tuning.

Context Length:

QLoRA

4-bit

32B Models

LoRA

16-bit

14B Models

Full Parameter Training

3B Models

Workload Recommendations

Guidance for optimal precision and operational ceilings on Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB).

Inference Sweet Spot

Optimized for 14B models at uncompressed or Q8 precision, and 32B models at Q4 with up to 32k context.

Bandwidth & Speed Profile

With 643.2 GB/s aggregate bandwidth, batch size 1 inference operates in a memory-bandwidth bound regime. Generates approximately 143 tok/s on an 8B Q4 model and 17 tok/s on a 70B Q4 model.

Frequently Asked Questions