How fast will local models feel on the AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB?

Local LLM speed on the AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB

The AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB has 24 GB of memory and 960 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_MFits36 tok/s0.4 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits288 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits240 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MPartial offload302 tok/s1.2 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MPartial offload363 tok/s1.2 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Doesn't fitWon't run—
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits33 tok/s0.5 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits43 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits97 tok/s0.4 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits26 tok/s0.4 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits95 tok/s0.4 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits28 tok/s0.5 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits274 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.