Qwen2.5 on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM

✅ Runs (tight) — Qwen2.5 32B @ Q4_K_M
Qwen2.5 32B at Q4_K_M needs ~21.4 GB (weights 18.5 GB + KV 2.0 GB + overhead 947 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~17–30 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q4_K_M: runs to 32K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✗ Q8_036.0 GB—
~ Q5_K_M24.8 GB~5–8 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q4_K_M21.4 GB~17–30 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q3_K_M17.7 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
$runlocal install qwen2.5:32b
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Qwen2.5: Runs (tight)
for your own README — links back here

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 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3 · Gemma 2

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…and 12 more — see the Qwen2.5 page.

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