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Can the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Gemma 2 9B?

Radeon AI PRO R9700 × Gemma 2 9B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1621.2 GB of 32 GB
Weights 18.5 GBKV cache 2.1 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~21tokens per second
Max context8Kthe model's full window
  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 Gemma 2 9B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 21.2 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 21 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Gemma 2 9B:

ollama run gemma2:9b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 8.3 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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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 quality21.2 GBFits~21 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless12.5 GBFits~39 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent10.3 GBFits~51 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good9.3 GBFits~58 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular8.3 GBFits~69 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded7.2 GBFits~85 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded6.2 GBFits~111 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 Gemma 2 9B 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 Gemma 2 9B 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 -- gemma2:9b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="gemma2:9b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

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Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Gemma 2 9B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can run Gemma 2 9B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 21.2 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 21 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Gemma 2 9B need?

About 8.3 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 21.2 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Gemma 2 9B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700?

Roughly 21 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700's 640 GB/s memory bandwidth.