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Can the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Qwen3 4B?

Radeon AI PRO R9700 × Qwen3 4B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP169.8 GB of 32 GB
Weights 8 GBKV cache 1.2 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~48tokens per second
Max context32Kthe 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 Qwen3 4B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 9.8 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 48 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Qwen3 4B:

ollama run qwen3:4b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 4.2 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 quality9.8 GBFits~48 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless6.1 GBFits~90 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent5.1 GBFits~116 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good4.7 GBFits~134 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular4.2 GBFits~158 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded3.8 GBFits~195 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded3.3 GBFits~255 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 Qwen3 4B 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 Qwen3 4B 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 -- qwen3:4b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="qwen3:4b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Qwen3 4B comfortably

Models that run well on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 run Qwen3 4B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 can run Qwen3 4B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 9.8 GB of the 32 GB available, at roughly 48 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Qwen3 4B need?

About 4.2 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 9.8 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Qwen3 4B on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700?

Roughly 48 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700's 640 GB/s memory bandwidth.