AMD Radeon Pro W6600 vs AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB for local LLMs
0 reports on the AMD Radeon Pro W6600 and 1 on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
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 2.0x higher on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB (224 GB/s on the AMD Radeon Pro W6600, 448 on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 20.8 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 19.5 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
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 Pro W6600 | AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.5 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 13.8 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.5 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 8.8 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD Radeon Pro W6600 · AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
Every report on each card, with its source: AMD Radeon Pro W6600 · AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB