How fast will local models feel on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB?

Local LLM speed on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB

The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB has 32 GB of memory and 644.6 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_MFits24 tok/s0.4 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits159 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits161 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits147 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits204 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Partial offload37 tok/s1.2 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits22 tok/s0.4 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits82 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits65 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits45 tok/s0.4 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits64 tok/s0.3 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits19 tok/s0.4 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits184 tok/s0.3 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.