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Can the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT run Qwen3 1.7B?

62 ptsGood (B) · 62 of 100 points: Model quality 13.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 9.2/15

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At F16 it needs about 6.4 GB of 16.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 78.2 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
78.2 tok/s
Prompt processing
29,717 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
40K

Download Qwen3 1.7B

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT: F16. 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 qwen3:1.7b-fp16

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

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3

Qwen’s main repo, renamed from Qwen2.5 to Qwen3; it still documents Qwen2.5.

Links checked 1 week 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.13.5 / 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.9.2 / 15
Total62.7 / 10062 ptsGood (B) · 62 of 100 points: Model quality 13.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 9.2/15

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

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Fit Grade · points Download
Q2_K 3.2 GB 16.0 GB 547 tok/s Runs well 53 ptsUsable (C) · 53 of 100 points: Model quality 9.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 4.5/15 GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 3.3 GB 16.0 GB 431 tok/s Runs well 56 ptsUsable (C) · 56 of 100 points: Model quality 11.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 4.8/15 GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 3.6 GB 16.0 GB 333 tok/s Runs well 57 ptsUsable (C) · 57 of 100 points: Model quality 12.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 5.2/15
Q5_K_M 3.8 GB 16.0 GB 275 tok/s Runs well 58 ptsGood (B) · 58 of 100 points: Model quality 13.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 5.5/15 GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 4.0 GB 16.0 GB 231 tok/s Runs well 59 ptsGood (B) · 59 of 100 points: Model quality 13.4/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 5.8/15 GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 4.5 GB 16.0 GB 170 tok/s Runs well 59 ptsGood (B) · 59 of 100 points: Model quality 13.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 6.5/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 6.4 GB 16.0 GB 78.2 tok/s Runs well 62 ptsGood (B) · 62 of 100 points: Model quality 13.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 9.2/15 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

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.