AMD Radeon 890M vs AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB for local LLMs
1 report on the AMD Radeon 890M and 50 on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.5 35B · 3B active at 4-bit, the AMD Radeon 890M runs at 14.9 tokens per second (one run) and the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB at 149.2 (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
- shared memory unified
- Memory bandwidth
- not on record
- FP16 compute
- not on record
- Reports
- 1
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 191 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 50
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 | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 35B · 3B active4-bit | 14.9one run | 149.2one 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 | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 35B · 3B active | not in the calculator yet | 58.2 t/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3.8 27B | not in the calculator yet | 16.0 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | not in the calculator yet | 18.7 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | not in the calculator yet | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | not in the calculator yet | 58.2 t/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3.6 27B | not in the calculator yet | 16.0 t/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | not in the calculator yet | 40.9 t/sQ6_K |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD Radeon 890M · AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
Every report on each card, with its source: AMD Radeon 890M · AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB