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Home/Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B/on Radeon RX 6850M XT 12GB

Can it run?

Can Radeon RX 6850M XT 12GB run Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

12.4 tok/s

TTFT

15621 ms

Safe context

7K

Memory

26.9 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights19.5 GB
KV Cache5.0 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy12.4 tok/s22722 ms12K
ChatFToo heavy12.4 tok/s8521 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy12.4 tok/s15621 ms7K
RAGFToo heavy12.4 tok/s28402 ms12K
ReasoningFToo heavy12.4 tok/s18461 ms7K

Quantization options

How Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (32B params) fits at each quantization level on Radeon RX 6850M XT 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
12.5 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
15.7 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
17.9 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
19.5 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
23.0 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
26.2 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
34.2 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
65.6 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B well

AMDRX 7900 XTX 24GBBest value
C31 tok/s decode

~$999 MSRP

AppleMac mini M4 64GBBudget pick
C4.4 tok/s decode

~$1,099 MSRP

NVIDIANVIDIA A100 40GBBiggest leap
B66.9 tok/s decode

~$10,000 MSRP

AMDRadeon Pro W7900 48GBAMD upgrade
C26.1 tok/s decode

 

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