NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB for local LLMs
10 reports on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) and 82 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 27B at 8-bit, the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) runs at 50.0 tokens per second (one run) and the AMD Strix Halo 128GB at 7.2 (one run). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 5.8x higher on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) (1,493 GB/s on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked), 256 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB).
- Memory
- 64GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,493 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- not on record
- Reports
- 10
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 59 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 82
Measured on both
Median tokens per second from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same quant level. Engines and context lengths can still differ between the runs. How to read these
| Model | NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) | AMD Strix Halo 128GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B8-bit | 50.0one run | 7.2one run |
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) | AMD Strix Halo 128GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 30.4 t/sQ8_0 | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 127.0 t/sQ3_K_S | 12.6 t/sQ6_K |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 33.5 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 109.5 t/sQ8_0 | 12.6 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 30.4 t/sQ8_0 | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 82.1 t/sQ8_0 | 9.5 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) · AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) · AMD Strix Halo 128GB