AMD Instinct MI210 vs AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB for local LLMs
0 reports on the AMD Instinct MI210 and 43 on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 2.6x higher on the AMD Instinct MI210 (1,638 GB/s on the AMD Instinct MI210, 640 on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 64GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,638 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 181 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 191 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 43
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.
| Model | AMD Instinct MI210 | AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 33.4 t/sQ8_0 | 16.0 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 139.4 t/sQ3_K_S | 18.7 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 120.1 t/sQ8_0 | 58.2 t/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 33.4 t/sQ8_0 | 16.0 t/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 90.1 t/sQ8_0 | 40.9 t/sQ6_K |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD Instinct MI210 · AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
Every report on each card, with its source: AMD Instinct MI210 · AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB