AMD Radeon RX 9070
16 GB · 640 GB/s · 220 W
In short
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory with 640 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text. At 128k context it runs 47 of the 125 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 27B at Q5_K_M, at about 12 tok/s (estimated). The best new price for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 in Canada is $1,074 at Amazon.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Prices
Every retailer we track in Canada, cheapest first. Buy links may earn us a commission.
| Retailer | Condition | Price | Stock | Checked | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmazonPowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 9070 16GB GDDR6 | New | $1,074 | In stock | 3 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS PRIME Radeon RX 9070 16GB GDDR6 OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card | New | $1,282+ $10 delivery | In stock | 3 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonGIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6X | New | $1,354 | In stock | 2 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonSapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 16GB GDDR6 Gaming GPU | New | $1,388 | In stock | 2 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS PRIME Radeon RX 9070 EVO 16GB GDDR6 OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card | New | $1,420 | In stock | 3 h ago | Buy |
What two of them run
Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @128k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 29.7 GB | 138k242k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 155 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 28.4 GB | 157k256k with q8 cache | 13tok/sest. | 155 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q4_K_M | fits | 29.9 GB | 133k245k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 147 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q5_K_M | fits | 29.2 GB | 173k256k with q8 cache | 43tok/sest. | 755 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 28.5 GB | 156k256k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 155 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | fits | 29.8 GB | 153k245k with q8 cache | 30tok/sest. | 916 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 29.1 GB | 180k256k with q8 cache | 43tok/sest. | 755 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q5_K_M | fits | 28.6 GB | 159k198k with q8 cache | 20tok/sest. | 356 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q4_K_M | fits | 26.4 GB | 256k | 65tok/sest. | 1016 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 16.3 GB | 128k | 37tok/sest. | 593 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 16.2 GB | 256k | 23tok/sest. | 381 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 15.0 GB | 256k | 25tok/sest. | 453 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q4_K_M | fits | 27.9 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 190 tok/s | chat |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | fits | 29.7 GB | 132k241k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 178 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 28.2 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 230 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 28.2 GB | 40k | 13tok/sest. | 230 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 10.3 GB | 256k | 40tok/sest. | 706 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 27.5 GB | 149k256k with q8 cache | 13tok/sest. | 233 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q6_K | fits | 29.1 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 209 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 13.2 GB | 128k | 29tok/sest. | 635 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 16.4 GB | 125k | 28tok/sest. | 849 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 24.2 GB | 128k | 15tok/sest. | 251 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 4.0 GB | 32k | 164tok/sest. | 1907 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 4.3 GB | 256k | 144tok/sest. | 2543 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 4.9 GB | 256k | 115tok/sest. | 1626 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 7.3 GB | 128k | 62tok/sest. | 852 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 15.9 GB | 128k | 46tok/sest. | 982 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Spark X2.5 4B XHToken | mlx-4bit | fits | 9.4 GB | 639k1024k with q8 cache | 44tok/sest. | 698 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 9.8 GB | 128k | 42tok/sest. | 458 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 10.4 GB | 256k | 39tok/sest. | 706 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 12.2 GB | 128k | 32tok/sest. | 588 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 12.2 GB | 32k | 32tok/sest. | 565 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Moonshot AI | Q8_0 | fits | 21.7 GB | 128k | 29tok/sest. | 617 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-8bit | fits | 22.4 GB | 128k | 29tok/sest. | 617 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 Z.ai | mlx-5bit | fits | 14.7 GB | 32k | 26tok/sest. | 205 tok/s | chat, coding |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 15.4 GB | 128k | 25tok/sest. | 363 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 15.7 GB | 128k | 24tok/sest. | 370 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 16.4 GB | 128k | 23tok/sest. | 199 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 16.6 GB | 128k | 23tok/sest. | 304 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | fits | 18.0 GB | 64k | 21tok/sest. | 199 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 18.5 GB | 239k256k with q8 cache | 20tok/sest. | 355 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q5_K_M | fits | 29.3 GB | 128k | 17tok/sest. | 496 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Muse Glimmer 30B meta-models | Q6_K | fits | 25.6 GB | 128k | 14tok/sest. | 169 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 26.0 GB | 128k | 14tok/sest. | 251 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 27.5 GB | 149k256k with q8 cache | 13tok/sest. | 233 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED OBLITERATUS | mlx-4bit | fits | 29.4 GB | 142k248k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 155 tok/s | chat |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | fits | 29.7 GB | 132k241k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 178 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 44.2 GB | – | 11tok/sest. | 222 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 50.3 GB | – | 11tok/sest. | 461 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 54.1 GB | – | 9tok/sest. | 282 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 42.3 GB | – | 15tok/sest. | 197 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 50.3 GB | – | 13tok/sest. | 504 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 97k177k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 126 tok/s | chat |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 31.1 GB | 78k107k with q8 cache | 64tok/sest. | 559 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 31.3 GB | 118k212k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 215 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 52.5 GB | 40k | 2tok/sest. | 46 tok/s | chat |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 97k128k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 126 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 52.5 GB | 41k76k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 62 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 30.4 GB | 40k | 12tok/sest. | 152 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.3 GB | 16k | 5tok/sest. | 139 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.4 GB | 107k128k with q8 cache | 6tok/sest. | 124 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 97k128k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 40k | 5tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 40k | 5tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 35.4 GB | 97k128k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 126 tok/s | chat |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q4_K_M | offload | 50.8 GB | 48k88k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 74 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 103.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 104.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 78.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 103.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 65.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q2_K | won't run | 67.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 388.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 388.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 388.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 158.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 167.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 115.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 249.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 84.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 248.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 90.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 249.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 395.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 433.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 446.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 759.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi Dev 72B Moonshot AI | Q6_K | won't run | 102.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 588.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 589.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 589.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 589.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 161.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 161.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 148.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 256.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 115.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
Specifications
From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.
- GPU
- Radeon RX 9070
- Memory
- 16 GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 256-bit
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 36.1 TFLOPS
- Software
- ROCm
- Board power
- 220 W
- PCIe generation
- Gen 5
- PCIe lanes
- x16
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Questions
- How much memory does the AMD Radeon RX 9070 have for AI models?
- The AMD Radeon RX 9070 has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory with 640 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text.
- What is the best model the AMD Radeon RX 9070 can run locally?
- Qwen 3.8 27B (Q5_K_M) fits fully in its memory at 128k context and generates at about 12 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 47 of the 125 models we track fit at that context.
- Can the AMD Radeon RX 9070 run DeepSeek V4 Flash?
- No: even at UD-Q2_K_XL, DeepSeek V4 Flash needs about 103 GB at 128k context, more than the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and system RAM can hold.
- How much does the AMD Radeon RX 9070 cost in Canada?
- The best new price for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 in Canada is $1,074 at Amazon.
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