Phi-3.5-mini on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B @ Q8_0
Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B at Q8_0 needs ~7.3 GB (weights 3.8 GB + KV 3.0 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~55–90 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K · runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
quantneedsspeed
✓ Q8_07.3 GB~55–90 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q5_K_M6.0 GB~65–110 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M5.7 GB~70–120 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install phi3.5:3.8b
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Phi-3.5-mini: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3

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