What can a RX 6800 16GB run?
16GB · 512 GB/s · 250W · $380
A well-priced 16 GB RDNA2 card that quietly handles 8B Q4 and light 24B offloads.
Runs great18
Comfortable headroom — daily-driver territory.
| Model | Quant | Est. speed | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek moe 16b chat | FP16 | Infinity tok/s | — |
| qwen2 7b instruct | FP16 | Infinity tok/s | — |
| Qwen3-0.6B | FP16 | 256 tok/s | 33k |
| Gemma-3n-E4B | FP16 | 113 tok/s | 72k |
| SmolLM2-1.7B | FP16 | 93 tok/s | 8k |
| Llama-3.2-3B | FP16 | 49 tok/s | 91k |
| Phi-4-mini | FP16 | 41 tok/s | 73k |
| Gemma-3-4B | FP16 | 41 tok/s | 73k |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 41 tok/s | 33k |
| Qwen3-4B | FP16 | 40 tok/s | 33k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | Q8_0 | 39 tok/s | 54k |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7B | Q8_0 | 39 tok/s | 54k |
| Llama-3.1-8B | Q8_0 | 37 tok/s | 50k |
| Qwen3-8B | Q8_0 | 37 tok/s | 33k |
| Phi-4-14B | Q4_K_M | 36 tok/s | 16k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | Q4_K_M | 35 tok/s | 40k |
| Gemma-3-12B | Q5_K_M | 35 tok/s | 39k |
| Qwen3-14B | MLX 4-bit | 33 tok/s | 33k |
Tight squeeze12
It fits, but close the browser tabs and mind the context.
| Model | Quant | Est. speed | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | IQ2_M | 285 tok/s | 25k |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B | IQ2_M | 285 tok/s | 25k |
| GPT-OSS-20B | Q4_K_M | 145 tok/s | 11k |
| Qwen3-32B | IQ2_M | 29 tok/s | 20k |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | IQ2_M | 29 tok/s | 20k |
| GLM-4-32B | IQ2_M | 29 tok/s | 20k |
| Qwen3.8 | Q3_K_M | 24 tok/s | 7k |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Q3_K_M | 24 tok/s | 7k |
| Gemma-3-27B | Q3_K_M | 24 tok/s | 7k |
| qwen35 27B | Q3_K_M | 24 tok/s | 6k |
| Codestral-22B | Q4_K_M | 24 tok/s | 5k |
| Mistral-Small-24B | MLX 4-bit | 23 tok/s | 4k |
Measured on this card0
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