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Can the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Gemma 3 27B?

Radeon AI PRO R9700 × Gemma 3 27B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at Q8_030.8 GB of 32 GB
Weights 29.1 GBKV cache 1.1 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantQ8_0Near-lossless
Speed~13tokens per second
Max context21Ktokens that fit at Q8_0
  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 3 27B fully in VRAM at Q8_0 (near-lossless), using about 30.8 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 13 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Gemma 3 27B:

ollama run gemma3:27b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 18.3 GB here). You have room for Q8_0, which is near-lossless: 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 quality56.5 GBToo big—
Q8_0Near-lossless30.8 GBFits~13 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent24.2 GBFits~17 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good21.2 GBFits~20 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular18.3 GBFits~23 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded15.1 GBFits~29 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded12 GBFits~37 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 3 27B 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 3 27B 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 -- gemma3:27b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="gemma3:27b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Gemma 3 27B comfortably

Models that run well on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Gemma 3 27B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can run Gemma 3 27B fully in VRAM at Q8_0 (near-lossless), using about 30.8 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 13 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Gemma 3 27B need?

About 18.3 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 56.5 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Gemma 3 27B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700?

Roughly 13 tokens per second at Q8_0, estimated from the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700's 640 GB/s memory bandwidth.