Calculate the TPS of the Radeon Instinct MI200 on local AI models

AMD 64 GB HBM2e 1,640 GB/s December 2021

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

628 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

122B · Q3_K_M · 66.6 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

542 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon Instinct MI200?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

628 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
542 tok/s

325–867 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
502 tok/s

301–803 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
493 tok/s

296–788 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
493 tok/s

296–788 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
493 tok/s

296–788 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
493 tok/s

296–788 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
451 tok/s

271–722 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
451 tok/s

271–722 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
451 tok/s

271–722 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
451 tok/s

271–722 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
451 tok/s

271–722 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
440 tok/s

264–705 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
434 tok/s

261–695 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
417 tok/s

250–667 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Radeon Instinct MI200 full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
64 GB
Memory bandwidth
1,640 GB/s
Memory type
HBM2e
Memory bus width
4,096 bit
Memory clock
1.6 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
Aldebaran
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
Generation
Radeon Instinct(MIx)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
6 nm
Transistors
58.2 billion
Transistor density
80,400 K/mm²
Die size
724 mm²
Released
1 December 2021

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1 GHz
Boost clock
1.7 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
6,656
Texture mapping units
416
L1 cache
16 KB
L2 cache
16 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
181 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
22.6 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
22.6 TFLOPS
Texture rate
707 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
300 W
Suggested power supply
700 W
Power connectors
1x 8-pin
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Slot width
OAM Module

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

OpenCL
3.0

Listings

Where to buy a Radeon Instinct MI200

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

Why memory is the number that matters here

Memory

64 GB

Bandwidth

1,640 GB/s

Largest model

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Radeon Instinct MI200 carries 64 GB of HBM2e. That covers the mid-sized models most people actually run. Once the runtime and driver reserve their working space, roughly this much is left: 57.6 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 1,640 GB/s across a bus of 4,096 bits. Generating a token means reading every weight once, so that figure sets the pace more than any other number here, and at this level text arrives faster than most people read.

The figure is the bus width multiplied by a memory clock of 1.6 GHz. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.

In practice that combination tops out at Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, 122B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 66.6 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Radeon Instinct MI200 is built on the graphics processor Aldebaran, using the architecture CDNA 2.0 from AMD, as part of the generation Radeon Instinct(MIx).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 6 nm, with a die measuring 724 mm², holding 58.2 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in December 2021, roughly 4.7846321297022 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

181 TFLOPS

FP64

22.6 TFLOPS

On paper Radeon Instinct MI200 reaches 181 TFLOPS at half precision, and 22.6 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Double-precision throughput reaches 22.6 TFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

Clocks run from a base of 1 GHz to a boost of 1.7 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

Radeon Instinct MI200 has an L1 cache of 16 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 16 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 6,656 shading units, 416 texture mapping units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

300 W

Radeon Instinct MI200 is rated at 300 W, and the suggested system power supply is 700 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies oam module, and needs 1x 8-pin. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 4.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a Radeon Instinct MI200

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 Laguna S 2.1 118B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2026 68.8 tok/s
  2. 02 Mistral Small 4 119B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2026 68.3 tok/s
  3. 03 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 122B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2026 66.6 tok/s
  4. 04 Cohere Command A Reasoning 111B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2025 13.2 tok/s
  5. 05 GLM-4.5V 108B · IQ4_XS · Aug 2025 68.4 tok/s
  6. 06 Command A Vision 112B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2025 13.1 tok/s
  7. 07 Llama 4 Scout 109B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 13.4 tok/s
  8. 08 Cohere Command A 111B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2025 13.2 tok/s
  9. 09 Telechat2-115B 115B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 12.7 tok/s
  10. 10 Qwen1.5-110B 110B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 13.3 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Radeon Instinct MI200

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 542 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 502 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 493 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 493 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 493 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon Instinct MI200

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Find the model in the table

    The table lists 628 models this card can run. Search by name, or by size — typing 27b matches on the parameter count even when the name never states it.

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. Against 64 GB that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress

    By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 542 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Check the headroom before you decide

    A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against an available 64 GB.

  6. 06

    Cross-check against other hardware

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against Radeon Instinct MI200.

Answers

Radeon Instinct MI200 — common questions

01

Radeon Instinct MI200— when was it released?

It was released in December 2021.

02

Radeon Instinct MI200— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 300 W, and the suggested system power supply is 700 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

03

Radeon Instinct MI200— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 16 KB, and the L2 cache is 16 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

04

Radeon Instinct MI200— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 181 TFLOPS at half precision and 22.6 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

05

Radeon Instinct MI200— does it support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and this is a card from AMD. It runs language models through ROCm, Vulkan or Metal depending on the software, which are less mature than the CUDA path — our estimates apply a penalty for that.

06

Radeon Instinct MI200— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 4.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

07

Radeon Instinct MI200— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory is large enough for models most desktop hardware cannot touch and its bandwidth is high enough to generate text faster than most people read. In total it runs 628 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

08

Radeon Instinct MI200— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the card's 64 GB is possible and usually a false economy: the system-memory portion is slow enough to dominate the result.

09

Would two Radeon Instinct MI200 cards be twice as fast?

No. A second card doubles the memory to 128 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

10

Radeon Instinct MI200— which AI models can it run?

628 of the 721 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

11

Radeon Instinct MI200— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at 122B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 66.6 tokens per second and needs about 53.1 GB of the card's memory.

12

Radeon Instinct MI200— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 542 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

13

Radeon Instinct MI200— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q8_0, using about 9.8 GB of memory and generating around 120 tokens per second.

14

Radeon Instinct MI200— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q8_0, using about 17.5 GB of memory and generating around 188 tokens per second.

15

Radeon Instinct MI200— can it run 30B models?

Yes. For example it runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q8_0, using about 29.2 GB of memory and generating around 108 tokens per second.

16

Radeon Instinct MI200— can it run 70B models?

Yes. For example it runs Qwen3-Coder-Next at Q5_K_M, using about 52.7 GB of memory and generating around 67.2 tokens per second.

17

Radeon Instinct MI200— how much memory does it have?

This card has 64 GB of HBM2e. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 57.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

18

Radeon Instinct MI200— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 1,640 GB/s across a bus of 4,096 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

19

Radeon Instinct MI200— what type of memory does it use?

It uses HBM2e clocked at 1.6 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

20

Radeon Instinct MI200— who makes it?

This is a product of AMD, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 6 nm.

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