NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB for local LLMs
13 reports on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q and 313 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB
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 7.0x higher on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q (1,792 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q, 256 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 96GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,792 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 439 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 13
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 59 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 313
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 | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q | AMD Strix Halo 128GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 18.3 t/sFP16 | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 83.1 t/sQ5_K_S | 12.6 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 57.5 t/sFP16 | 12.6 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | 130.8 t/sQ2_K | 33.5 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 18.3 t/sFP16 | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 49.3 t/sFP16 | 9.5 t/sFP16 |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q · AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q · AMD Strix Halo 128GB