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Can the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Mixtral 8x7B?

Radeon AI PRO R9700 × Mixtral 8x7B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at Q4_K_M30 GB of 32 GB
Weights 28.3 GBKV cache 1.1 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantQ4_K_MGood, most popular
Speed~49tokens per second
Max context22Ktokens that fit at Q4_K_M
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can run Mixtral 8x7B fully in VRAM at Q4_K_M (good, most popular), using about 30 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 49 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Mixtral 8x7B:

ollama run mixtral:8x7b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 30 GB here). That is also the best quant that fits.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 32 GB the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality95.1 GBToo big—
Q8_0Near-lossless51.3 GBToo big—
Q6_KExcellent40 GBToo big—
Q5_K_MVery good34.9 GBToo big—
Q4_K_MGood, most popular30 GBFits~49 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded24.5 GBFits~61 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded19.2 GBFits~79 tok/s

Measured speed from real Radeon AI PRO R9700 owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Mixtral 8x7B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have a Radeon AI PRO R9700? Add your real speed

One command times Mixtral 8x7B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- mixtral:8x7b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="mixtral:8x7b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Mixtral 8x7B comfortably

Models that run well on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Mixtral 8x7B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can run Mixtral 8x7B fully in VRAM at Q4_K_M (good, most popular), using about 30 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 49 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Mixtral 8x7B need?

About 30 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 95.1 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Mixtral 8x7B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700?

Roughly 49 tokens per second at Q4_K_M, estimated from the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700's 640 GB/s memory bandwidth.