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AMD Radeon RX 9070: 16 GB, what it runs and what it costs

Specs checked · Aliteq Team · How we compute this

The short answer

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 has 16 GB of VRAM and 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth (2025). At Q4_K_M quality or better with an 8K context it runs 17 of the open models we track; the largest that fits with room to spare is DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B. We don't see it for rent on the providers we track right now.

VRAM
16 GB
Bandwidth
640 GB/s
Board power
220 W
Launched
2025

Source: AMD specification · bandwidth not yet confirmed by a second source, so we don't estimate speed from it

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Buy an AMD Radeon RX 9070

ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Challenger 16GB OC

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Best for: The 1440p gaming sweet spot; local models up to about 14B at Q4, more with MoE offload.

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Which AI models run on the AMD Radeon RX 9070

Computed by our VRAM engine for an 8K context: the best quality each model fits at in 16 GB. Speeds are upper-bound estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks.

ModelBest fitVRAM used~tok/s
Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE)Q4_K_M16 GB97% · tight—
Mistral Small 24BQ4_K_M15 GB96% · tight—
gpt-oss 20B (MoE)Q5_K_M15 GB94% · tight—
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ6_K14 GB85%—
Qwen2.5-Coder 14BQ6_K14 GB85%—
Qwen3 14BQ6_K13 GB83%—
Phi-4 14BQ6_K14 GB85%—
Gemma 3 12BQ8_013 GB83%—
Gemma 4 12BQ8_013 GB80%—
Qwen3.5 9BQ8_011 GB66%—
Qwen3 8BQ8_010 GB63%—
Gemma 4 E4BF1616 GB99% · tight—

Fits only below Q4 quality: Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), Ornith-1.5 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE) (Q2_K), DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B (Q2_K), Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (Q2_K).

Too big for 16 GB (rent a bigger card instead): what it costs to run Mixtral 8x7B (MoE), what it costs to run DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B, what it costs to run Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE), what it costs to run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE).

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AMD Radeon RX 9070: common questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon RX 9070 have?
16 GB, with 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth, per the maker's specification.
What is the biggest AI model the AMD Radeon RX 9070 can run?
Of the open models we track, DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B is the largest that fits at Q4_K_M or better with an 8K context and room to spare (about 14 GB of 16 GB). Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) also squeezes in, but with almost no memory left for longer context. Bigger models only fit at lower-quality quants or need more memory.
Can I rent an AMD Radeon RX 9070 in the cloud?
We don't see it on Vast.ai, Runpod or the other providers we track right now. The cloud GPU table lists every card that is for rent.
Is 16 GB enough?
The 1440p gaming sweet spot; local models up to about 14B at Q4, more with MoE offload.