How fast will local models feel on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB (Strix Halo)?

Local LLM speed on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB (Strix Halo)

The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB (Strix Halo) has 128 GB of memory and 256 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_MFits9.5 tok/s0.6 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-Q2_K_XLFits26 tok/s0.5 s
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits74 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits49 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits53 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits81 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ3_SFits32 tok/s0.4 s
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Fits52 tok/s0.4 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits11 tok/s0.4 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits33 tok/s0.4 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits26 tok/s0.4 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits18 tok/s0.5 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits25 tok/s0.4 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits7.4 tok/s0.7 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits73 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.