AMD RX 480 8GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB for local LLMs
0 reports on the AMD RX 480 8GB and 317 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 about the same on both (256 GB/s on the AMD RX 480 8GB, 256 on the AMD Strix Halo 128GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
AMD RX 480 8GB
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 5.8 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
AMD Strix Halo 128GB
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 59 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 317
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 RX 480 8GB | AMD Strix Halo 128GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 12.6 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 14.3 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM | 12.6 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 33.5 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 3.5 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 9.1 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 9.5 t/sFP16 |
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