Calculate the TPS of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX on local AI models

AMD 24 GB GDDR6 960 GB/s November 2022

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

532 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Mixtral 8x7B

46.7B · Q3_K_M · 66.3 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

317 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX?

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.

532 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
317 tok/s

190–507 · low confidence

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

190–507 · low confidence

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

176–470 · low confidence

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

173–461 · low confidence

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

173–461 · low confidence

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

173–461 · low confidence

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

173–461 · low confidence

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

159–423 · low confidence

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

159–423 · low confidence

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

159–423 · low confidence

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

159–423 · low confidence

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

159–423 · low confidence

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

155–413 · low confidence

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

153–407 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · low confidence

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

146–390 · 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 RX 7900 XTX 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
24 GB
Memory bandwidth
960 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR6
Memory bus width
384 bit
Memory clock
2.5 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
Navi 31
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
Generation
Navi III(RX 7000)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
5 nm
Transistors
57.7 billion
Transistor density
109,100 K/mm²
Die size
529 mm²
Package
MCM
Released
3 November 2022

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
1.93 GHz
Boost clock
2.5 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
6,144
Texture mapping units
384
Render output units
192
Ray tracing cores
96
L1 cache
250 KB
L2 cache
6 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)
122.8 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
61.4 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
1.9 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
480 GPixel/s
Texture rate
959 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)
355 W
Suggested power supply
750 W
Power connectors
2x 8-pin
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Slot width
Dual-slot
Dimensions
287 mm × 51 mm
Display outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

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.

DirectX
12.2
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
2.2
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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

What the memory subsystem means for AI

Memory

24 GB

Bandwidth

960 GB/s

Largest model

Mixtral 8x7B

Radeon RX 7900 XTX carries 24 GB of GDDR6. That covers the mid-sized models most people actually run. Once the runtime and driver reserve their working space, roughly this much is left: 21.6 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 960 GB/s across a bus of 384 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.

Bandwidth is clock times bus width, and this card clocks its memory at 2.5 GHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.

The practical ceiling is Mixtral 8x7B, 46.7B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 66.3 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Radeon RX 7900 XTX is built on the graphics processor Navi 31, using the architecture RDNA 3.0 from AMD, as part of the generation Navi III(RX 7000).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm, with a die measuring 529 mm², holding 57.7 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 November 2022, roughly 3.8622861082293 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

122.8 TFLOPS

FP64

1.9 TFLOPS

On paper Radeon RX 7900 XTX reaches 122.8 TFLOPS at half precision, and 61.4 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 1.9 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 1.93 GHz to a boost of 2.5 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 RX 7900 XTX has an L1 cache of 250 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 6 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 6,144 shading units, 384 texture mapping units, and 192 render output 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

355 W

Radeon RX 7900 XTX is rated at 355 W, and the suggested system power supply is 750 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 dual-slot, measuring 287 mm long, and needs 2x 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 RX 7900 XTX

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 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 35B · Q4_K_M · Apr 2026 116 tok/s
  2. 02 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B 35.3B · Q4_K_M · Sep 2025 115 tok/s
  3. 03 Seed-OSS-36B-Base 36B · IQ4_XS · Aug 2025 21.6 tok/s
  4. 04 InternVL2_5-38B 38.4B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2024 22.3 tok/s
  5. 05 InternVL2-40B 40.1B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2024 21.3 tok/s
  6. 06 JIUTIAN-139MoE 38.8B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2024 22.1 tok/s
  7. 07 VILA1.5-40B 40B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 21.4 tok/s
  8. 08 Mixtral 8x7B 46.7B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2023 66.3 tok/s
  9. 09 Falcon-40B 40B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 21.4 tok/s
  10. 10 gpt-sw3-40b 40B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 21.4 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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 317 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 317 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 317 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 317 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 317 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 317 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 294 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 288 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 288 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 288 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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

    Start with the model, not the specification

    The table lists 532 models the card handles. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. Against 24 GB so the setting is worth getting right.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress

    Each model is shown at the best compression this card can hold. A minimum quality hides the ones that only fit by being squeezed further than you would accept.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it. The top end here is 317 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 memory column before committing

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 24 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 RX 7900 XTX.

Answers

Radeon RX 7900 XTX — common questions

01

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— 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.

02

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— 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.

03

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory comfortably covers the mid-sized models most people run locally and its bandwidth is high enough to generate text faster than most people read. In total it runs 532 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

04

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the card's 24 GB drags the whole thing down, and none of the figures on this page assume it.

05

Would two Radeon RX 7900 XTX cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 48 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

06

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— which AI models can it run?

532 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.

07

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Mixtral 8x7B at 46.7B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 66.3 tokens per second and needs about 21.0 GB of the card's memory.

08

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— 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 317 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.

09

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— 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 70.5 tokens per second.

10

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— 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 110 tokens per second.

11

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— can it run 30B models?

Yes. For example it runs Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at Q4_K_M, using about 18.1 GB of memory and generating around 129 tokens per second.

12

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— how much memory does it have?

This card has 24 GB of GDDR6. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 21.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

13

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 960 GB/s across a bus of 384 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.

14

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR6 clocked at 2.5 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.

15

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— who makes it?

This is a product of AMD, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm.

16

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— when was it released?

It was released in November 2022.

17

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 355 W, and the suggested system power supply is 750 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.

18

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 250 KB, and the L2 cache is 6 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.

19

Radeon RX 7900 XTX— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 122.8 TFLOPS at half precision and 61.4 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.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

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