Calculate the TPS of the Radeon Instinct MI325X on local AI models

AMD 256 GB HBM3e 6,000 GB/s October 2024

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

687 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B

480B · Q3_K_M · 61.9 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

1,982 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Radeon Instinct MI325X?

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.

687 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,982 tok/s

1,189–3,171 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,835 tok/s

1,101–2,936 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,802 tok/s

1,081–2,883 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,802 tok/s

1,081–2,883 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,802 tok/s

1,081–2,883 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,802 tok/s

1,081–2,883 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,652 tok/s

991–2,643 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,652 tok/s

991–2,643 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,652 tok/s

991–2,643 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,652 tok/s

991–2,643 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,652 tok/s

991–2,643 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,611 tok/s

967–2,578 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,589 tok/s

953–2,542 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,525 tok/s

915–2,440 · 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 MI325X 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
256 GB
Memory bandwidth
6,000 GB/s
Memory type
HBM3e
Memory bus width
8,192 bit
Memory clock
1.47 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
Aqua Vanjaram
Architecture
CDNA 3.0
Generation
Radeon Instinct(MIx)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
5 nm
Transistors
153 billion
Transistor density
150,400 K/mm²
Die size
1,017 mm²
Package
MCM
Released
1 October 2024

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
2.1 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
19,456
Texture mapping units
1,216
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)
653.7 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
81.7 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
81.7 TFLOPS
Texture rate
2,554 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)
1,000 W
Suggested power supply
1,400 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
PCIe 5.0 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 MI325X

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

Memory: the specification that decides everything

Memory

256 GB

Bandwidth

6,000 GB/s

Largest model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B

Radeon Instinct MI325X holds 256 GB of HBM3e. That puts it in the class of hardware that holds the largest open-weight models without splitting them across machines. An inference runtime can reach roughly 230.4 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 6,000 GB/s across a bus of 8,192 bits. That is at the top of what exists. Since each token means reading the whole model out of memory once, it translates almost directly into generation speed — this card is bandwidth-rich enough that model size stops being the limiting factor long before the bus does.

Bandwidth is clock times bus width, and this card clocks its memory at 1.47 GHz. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

Put together, the largest model that fits is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B, 480B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 61.9 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

Radeon Instinct MI325X is built on the graphics processor Aqua Vanjaram, using the architecture CDNA 3.0 from AMD, as part of the generation Radeon Instinct(MIx).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm, with a die measuring 1,017 mm², holding 153 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 October 2024, roughly 1.9510608693654 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

653.7 TFLOPS

FP64

81.7 TFLOPS

On paper Radeon Instinct MI325X reaches 653.7 TFLOPS at half precision, and 81.7 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 81.7 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 2.1 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 MI325X 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 19,456 shading units, 1,216 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

1,000 W

Radeon Instinct MI325X is rated at 1,000 W, and the suggested system power supply is 1,400 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. 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 5.0 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 MI325X

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-Coder-480B-A35B 480B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2025 61.9 tok/s
  2. 02 MiniMax-M1-80k 456B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 11.7 tok/s
  3. 03 MiniMax-M1-40k 456B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 11.7 tok/s
  4. 04 Llama 4 Maverick 400B · Q4_K_M · Apr 2025 63.6 tok/s
  5. 05 ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B (文心大模型4.5) 424B · IQ4_XS · Mar 2025 63.8 tok/s
  6. 06 Tulu 3 405B 405B · IQ4_XS · Jan 2025 12.0 tok/s
  7. 07 MiniMax-VL-01 456.3B · IQ4_XS · Jan 2025 59.3 tok/s
  8. 08 MiniMax-Text-01 456B · Q3_K_M · Jan 2025 11.7 tok/s
  9. 09 Hermes 3 405B 405B · IQ4_XS · Aug 2024 12.0 tok/s
  10. 10 Llama 3.1-405B 405B · Q4_K_M · Jul 2024 11.3 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Radeon Instinct MI325X

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 1,982 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,982 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,982 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,982 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,982 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,982 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,835 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,802 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,802 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,802 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Radeon Instinct MI325X

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

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Set the context to your real working length. Short questions cost almost nothing, but a long document can consume a large share of 256 GB so the setting is worth getting right.

  3. 03

    Pin the comparison to one quality level

    Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.

  4. 04

    Read the speed and the range

    Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it. The top end here is 1,982 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 256 GB.

  6. 06

    Check the same model from the other side

    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 MI325X.

Answers

Radeon Instinct MI325X — common questions

01

Radeon Instinct MI325X— who makes it?

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

02

Radeon Instinct MI325X— when was it released?

It was released in October 2024.

03

Radeon Instinct MI325X— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 1,000 W, and the suggested system power supply is 1,400 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.

04

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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.

05

Radeon Instinct MI325X— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 653.7 TFLOPS at half precision and 81.7 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.

06

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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.

07

Radeon Instinct MI325X— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 5.0 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.

08

Radeon Instinct MI325X— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory is large enough for models most desktop hardware cannot touch and its bandwidth puts it among the fastest hardware available for generation. In total it runs 687 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

09

Radeon Instinct MI325X— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 256 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.

10

Would two Radeon Instinct MI325X cards be twice as fast?

No. A second card doubles the memory to 512 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

11

Radeon Instinct MI325X— which AI models can it run?

687 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.

12

Radeon Instinct MI325X— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B at 480B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 61.9 tokens per second and needs about 205.7 GB of the card's memory.

13

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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 1,982 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.

14

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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 440 tokens per second.

15

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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 688 tokens per second.

16

Radeon Instinct MI325X— 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 393 tokens per second.

17

Radeon Instinct MI325X— can it run 70B models?

Yes. For example it runs Qwen3-Coder-Next at Q8_0, using about 80.7 GB of memory and generating around 138 tokens per second.

18

Radeon Instinct MI325X— how much memory does it have?

This card has 256 GB of HBM3e. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 230.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.

19

Radeon Instinct MI325X— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 6,000 GB/s across a bus of 8,192 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.

20

Radeon Instinct MI325X— what type of memory does it use?

It uses HBM3e clocked at 1.47 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.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.

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