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Radeon RX 9070 for local AI

Radeon RX 9070 provides 16 GB of VRAM for local AI. In the LocalIA catalog, 170 out of 242 models run comfortably on a single card.

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VRAM
16GB
Category
Consumer
Series
RDNA 4
Vendor
AMD

Models that run comfortably

These models fit in 16 GB with room for context and stable inference.

Reka Flash 3 21Breka13.2 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 16 GB
InternLM 2.5 20Binternlm12.6 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 16 GB
DeepSeek V2 Litedeepseek12.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
DeepSeek Coder V2 Litedeepseek12.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
StarCoder 2 15Bstarcoder11.5 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Phi-4 Reasoning Vision 15Bphi11.5 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Qwen 2.5 14Bqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 14Bqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Qwen 3 14Bqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 14Bdeepseek10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
Phi-3 Medium 14Bphi10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Phi-4 14Bphi10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★GLM-4.5 Airglm10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Qwen2.5 14B Instructqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Qwen3 14Bqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instructqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Bqwen10.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
Llama 2 13Bllama10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
CodeLlama 13Bcodellama10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
OLMo 2 13Bolmo10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
Vicuna 13Bvicuna10.0 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 16 GB
★Mistral Nemo 12Bmistral13.4 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
★Gemma 3 12Bgemma13.4 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
StableLM 2 12Bstable13.4 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
Solar 10.7Bsolar12.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
Falcon 3 10Bfalcon11.2 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
★Gemma 2 9Bgemma10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
Yi 1.5 9Byi10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
★Qwen 3.5 9Bqwen10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB
★GLM-4 9Bglm10.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 16 GB

Tight models

These models barely fit. They can run, but context and speed will be limited.

★Mistral Small 3 24Bmistral15.1 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB
★Mistral Small 3.1 24Bmistral15.1 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB
★Mistral Small 3.2 24Bmistral15.1 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB
★Devstral Small 2 24Bdevstral15.1 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB
Mistral Small 22Bmistral13.8 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB
★Codestral 22Bcodestral13.8 GBtightQ4 · / 16 GB

Unlocked in a 2x rig

With two cards in parallel (32 GB total), larger models become reachable.

★Mixtral 8x7Bmistral29.5 GBtightQ4 · / 32 GB
Falcon 40Bfalcon25.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 32 GB
Command R 35Bcommand26.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Aya 23 35Baya26.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
CodeLlama 34Bcodellama26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Yi 1.5 34Byi26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34byi26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★Qwen 2.5 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★Qwen 2.5 Coder 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★Qwen 3 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★QwQ 32Bqwq24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 32Bdeepseek24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
★Granite 4 H-Small 32B-A9Bgranite24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
GLM-4.6glm24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB

Unlocked in a 4x rig

Server-style configuration (64 GB total) for the largest open-weight models.

★Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instructqwen50.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
★Qwen 2.5 72Bqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 72Bqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
★Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Llama 2 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.1 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
★Llama 3.3 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
CodeLlama 70Bcodellama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 70Bdeepseek53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB

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VRAM estimates updated 2026-05-12.