LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B?

66 pts

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 6.7 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 44.7 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 44.7 tok/s
Prompt processing: 4,193 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 17K

Download LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: Q4_K_M. 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.

ollama run llava:7b-v1.6-mistral-q4_K_M

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

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the B grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	12.0 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified 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
Total	67.0 / 100	66 ptsGood (B) · 66 of 100 points: Model quality 12.0/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Fit	Grade · points	Download
`Q2_K`	5.1 GB	8.0 GB	73.4 tok/s	Runs well	63 ptsGood (B) · 63 of 100 points: Model quality 8.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 14.7/15
`Q3_K_M`	5.8 GB	8.0 GB	57.8 tok/s	Runs well	65 ptsGood (B) · 65 of 100 points: Model quality 10.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15
`Q4_K_M`	6.7 GB	8.0 GB	44.7 tok/s	Runs well	66 ptsGood (B) · 66 of 100 points: Model quality 12.0/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15
`Q5_K_M`	7.4 GB	8.0 GB	36.9 tok/s	Tight fit	65 ptsGood (B) · 65 of 100 points: Model quality 12.2/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 14.4/15, Memory use 15.0/15
`Q6_K`	8.3 GB	8.0 GB	27.2 tok/s	Runs with offload	49 ptsUsable (C) · 49 of 100 points: Model quality 12.5/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 12.4/15, Memory use 15.0/15
`Q8_0`	10.1 GB	8.0 GB	12.5 tok/s	Runs with offload	45 ptsUsable (C) · 45 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 8.4/15, Memory use 15.0/15
`F16`	17.2 GB	8.0 GB	3.6 tok/s	Heavy offload	36 ptsPoor (D) · 36 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 4.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15	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

67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 · 45.5 tok/s
67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8_0 · 55.5 tok/s
67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q8_0 · 60.8 tok/s
67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q8_0 · 74.0 tok/s
67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Q8_0 · 79.2 tok/s
67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 12.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q6_K · 40.5 tok/s

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.