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AMD Instinct MI210: local LLM speed
Llama 2 7B (Q4_0) generates 130 tokens/s on the AMD Instinct MI210 (ROCm), and processes prompts at 2,572 tokens/s.
Measured results
| Model | Generate tok/s | Prompt tok/s | Quant | Backend | Test | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 2 7B | 130 | 2,572 | Q4_0 | ROCm FA on | tg128 | llama.cpp #15021 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 125 | 2,486 | Q4_0 | ROCm FA off | tg128 | llama.cpp #15021 details |
What fits on the AMD Instinct MI210
Estimates for this chip are scaled from a measured run: Llama 2 7B Q4_0 at 130 tok/s (ROCm, source). Fit assumes the whole model in GPU memory with ~8K context.
| Model | Best quant that fits | File | Expected tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B | Q8_0 | 29.0 GB | 17.1 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it | Q8_0 | 12.7 GB | 39.3 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 52.2 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-4B | Q8_0 | 4.5 GB | 111 estimate |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Q8_0 | 36.9 GB | 78.7 estimate |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | Q8_0 | 26.9 GB | 60.2 estimate |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 52.1 estimate |
| gemma-4-E4B-it | Q8_0 | 8.2 GB | 60.7 estimate |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | Q8_0 | 29.6 GB | 16.8 estimate |
| Qwen3-4B | Q8_0 | 4.3 GB | 116 estimate |
| gemma-4-31B-it | Q8_0 | 32.6 GB | 15.2 estimate |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | UD-Q4_K_XL | 14.2 GB | 114 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | UD-Q4_K_XL | 6.7 GB | 74.1 estimate |
| gemma-3-1b-it | Q8_0 | 1.1 GB | 415 estimate |
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