How fast will local models feel on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB?

Local LLM speed on the AMD Instinct MI50 32GB

The AMD Instinct MI50 32GB has 32 GB of memory and 1024 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is what mostly decides generation speed. Below is the expected speed for each model at the best quantization that fits.

ModelQuantizationMemoryGenerationFirst token
Qwen 3.6/3.8 27BQ4_K_MFits25 tok/s0.5 s
Qwen 3.8 Flash-NextQ2_KDoesn't fitWon't run—
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits56 tok/s0.4 s
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits316 tok/s0.4 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits356 tok/s0.4 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits36 tok/s1.0 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits116 tok/s0.5 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashQ2_KDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Doesn't fitWon't run—
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits72 tok/s0.5 s
Gemma 4 12BQ4_K_MFits92 tok/s0.6 s
GLM-5.3UD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits274 tok/s0.4 s

Other hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.