AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800 for local LLMs
43 reports on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB and 0 on the AMD Radeon Pro W6800
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 25% higher on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB (640 GB/s on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, 512 on the AMD Radeon Pro W6800). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 191 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 43
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 35.7 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
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 Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB | AMD Radeon Pro W6800 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 16.0 t/sQ6_K | 12.8 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 18.7 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | 18.1 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 | 58.2 t/sQ5_K_M | 46.6 t/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 16.0 t/sQ6_K | 12.8 t/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 40.9 t/sQ6_K | 32.7 t/sQ6_K |
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