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Can the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT run Gemma 7B IT?

26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 14.4 GB of 20.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 50.4 tok/s.

Best quant
Q8_0
Generation speed
50.4 tok/s
Prompt processing
7,478 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
8K

Best app to run it on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

  • AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.
lemonade pull google/gemma-7b-it:Q8_0
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

On Linux

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

  • AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.
lemonade pull google/gemma-7b-it:Q8_0
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Gemma 7B IT

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT: Q8_0. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run gemma:7b-instruct-q8_0

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b-it (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/google/gemma-7b-it

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Google, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b-it (opens in a new tab)

Free Hugging Face account needed: request access on the model page, and Google approves it (usually within minutes to a few hours).

Links checked 5 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.11.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score66.7 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 8.8 GB 20.0 GB 163 tok/s Runs great 18Basic quality (D) · 18 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q3_K_M 9.5 GB 20.0 GB 128 tok/s Runs great 21Basic quality (D) · 21 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q4_K_M 10.6 GB 20.0 GB 99.0 tok/s Runs great 24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q5_K_M 11.4 GB 20.0 GB 81.8 tok/s Runs great 25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q6_K 12.4 GB 20.0 GB 68.7 tok/s Runs great 25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q8_0 14.4 GB 20.0 GB 50.4 tok/s Runs great 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
F16 22.4 GB 20.0 GB 10.0 tok/s Slowoffloads to RAM 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 44/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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