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Instinct MI210 · 64 GB

32 GB system RAM · CDNA 2 · 1638 GB/s · 62.4 GB usable VRAM
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Context length

KV cache at f16, 4K tokens

Quality floor
Q8_0 — near-lossless Q6_K Q5_K_M Q4_K_M — recommended Q3_K_M Q2_K — damaged
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System RAM (GB)
Runtime
Ollamallama.cppLM StudiovLLM

4 of 5 runtimes drive this device.

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Offloaded layers run at 60 GB/s host bandwidth — expect single-digit tokens per second.

Which one should I actually run?

Best models for your Instinct MI210

Updated 21 Aug 2026 5 new this week, 14 this month

What do you want to do? Each row is the best-ranked model on that use case's shortlist that fits at Q3_K_M and 4K. The ordering is editorial; the sizes and speeds are computed. How the shortlists work.

RecommendationModelWhyQuant · totalTok/s est.
Best overall Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
Best capability per gigabyte: a current-generation dense 27B with vision and 262K context. Q3_K_M · 13.5 GB 78 Runs great
Best for coding Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
Terminal-Bench 73, DeepSWE 42 — a generation ahead of anything else that fits 24 GB. Q3_K_M · 13.5 GB 78 Runs great
Best reasoning Gemma 4 31B
Google · Apache 2.0
89% AIME — the strongest maths of any model under 32B. Q3_K_M · 16.3 GB 70 Runs great
Best for writing Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta · Llama 3.3 Community
The creative-writing favourite: consistent voice, takes direction, handles fiction framing. Q3_K_M · 34.0 GB 31 Runs great
Best vision Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
Image and video in, OSWorld 84 — the strongest local vision-language model at 24 GB. Q3_K_M · 13.5 GB 78 Runs great
Best for agents Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
Computer use and tool calling are what 3.8 was trained for (OSWorld 84). Q3_K_M · 13.5 GB 78 Runs great
Best translation Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
119 languages, and Qwen translations read as idiomatic rather than literal. Q3_K_M · 13.5 GB 78 Runs great
Fastest good model Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
3.3B active per token: the fastest model that still competes with dense 27Bs. Q3_K_M · 17.0 GB 254 Runs great
Best long context Qwen3.8 27B New this week
Alibaba · Apache 2.0
262K native, and only 16 of 64 blocks keep a KV cache — long context is cheap here. Q3_K_M · 21.3 GB
at 128K context
78 Runs great

Everything that fits

Runs great

61 of 76 · fits with headroom for a longer prompt
ModelParamsQuantWeights +KV 4KTotal VRAM headroom Tok/sRuntime
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B 109B MoE / 17B act Q3_K_M 49.6 GB 0.75 GB 51.0 GB
11.4 GB free
49 Ollama Run
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct 70.6B Q3_K_M 32.1 GB 1.25 GB 34.0 GB
28.4 GB free
31 Ollama Run
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B 70.6B Q3_K_M 32.1 GB 1.25 GB 34.0 GB
28.4 GB free
31 Ollama Run
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B 35.9B MoE / 3.3B act Q3_K_M 16.3 GB 0.08 GB 17.0 GB
45.4 GB free
254 Ollama Run
Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B New this week 35.9B MoE / 3.3B act Q3_K_M 16.3 GB 0.08 GB 17.0 GB
45.4 GB free
254 Ollama Run
LLM-jp 4 33B Thinking New this week 33.2B Q3_K_M 15.1 GB 1.00 GB 16.7 GB
45.7 GB free
66 llama.cpp Run
Qwen3 32B 32.8B Q3_K_M 14.9 GB 1.00 GB 16.5 GB
45.9 GB free
66 Ollama Run
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B 32.8B Q3_K_M 14.9 GB 1.00 GB 16.5 GB
45.9 GB free
66 Ollama Run
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B 32.8B Q3_K_M 14.9 GB 1.00 GB 16.5 GB
45.9 GB free
66 Ollama Run
Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct 32.2B Q3_K_M 14.7 GB 1.00 GB 16.3 GB
46.1 GB free
68 Ollama Run
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B New 31.6B MoE / 3.2B act Q3_K_M 14.4 GB 0.02 GB 15.0 GB
47.4 GB free
262 Ollama Run
Gemma 4 31B 31.3B Q3_K_M 14.2 GB 1.41 GB 16.3 GB
46.1 GB free
70 Ollama Run
GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B 31.2B MoE / 3B act Q3_K_M 14.2 GB 0.21 GB 15.0 GB
47.4 GB free
279 Ollama Run
Qwen3 30B-A3B 30.5B MoE / 3.3B act Q3_K_M 13.9 GB 0.38 GB 14.9 GB
47.5 GB free
254 Ollama Run
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B 30.5B MoE / 3.3B act Q3_K_M 13.9 GB 0.38 GB 14.9 GB
47.5 GB free
254 Ollama Run
Muse Glimmer 30B New 29.8B Q3_K_M 13.6 GB 0.13 GB 14.3 GB
48.1 GB free
73 Ollama Run
Granite 4.1 30B 28.9B Q3_K_M 13.2 GB 1.00 GB 14.8 GB
47.6 GB free
75 Ollama Run
Qwen3.8 27B New this week 27.8B Q3_K_M 12.7 GB 0.25 GB 13.5 GB
48.9 GB free
78 Ollama Run
Qwen3.6 27B 27.8B Q3_K_M 12.7 GB 0.25 GB 13.5 GB
48.9 GB free
78 Ollama Run
Gemma 3 27B 27.4B Q3_K_M 12.5 GB 0.72 GB 13.8 GB
48.6 GB free
80 Ollama Run
Gemma 4 26B-A4B 26.5B MoE / 3.8B act Q3_K_M 12.1 GB 0.35 GB 13.0 GB
49.4 GB free
220 Ollama Run
Devstral Small 2 24B 24B Q3_K_M 10.9 GB 0.63 GB 12.1 GB
50.3 GB free
91 llama.cpp Run
Mistral Small 3.2 24B 23.6B Q3_K_M 10.7 GB 0.63 GB 12.0 GB
50.4 GB free
92 Ollama Run
gpt-oss 20B 20.9B MoE / 3.6B act MXFP4 10.8 GB 0.10 GB 11.5 GB
50.9 GB free
204 Ollama Run
Qwen3 14B 14.8B Q3_K_M 6.7 GB 0.63 GB 8.0 GB
54.4 GB free
147 Ollama Run
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B 14.8B Q3_K_M 6.7 GB 0.75 GB 8.1 GB
54.3 GB free
147 Ollama Run
Qwen2.5-Coder 14B 14.8B Q3_K_M 6.7 GB 0.75 GB 8.1 GB
54.3 GB free
147 Ollama Run
Phi-4 14B 14.7B Q3_K_M 6.7 GB 0.78 GB 8.1 GB
54.3 GB free
148 Ollama Run
Ministral 3 14B 13.9B Q3_K_M 6.3 GB 0.63 GB 7.6 GB
54.8 GB free
157 Ollama Run
Gemma 3 12B 12.2B Q3_K_M 5.6 GB 0.56 GB 6.7 GB
55.7 GB free
179 Ollama Run
Mistral NeMo 12B 12.2B Q3_K_M 5.6 GB 0.63 GB 6.8 GB
55.6 GB free
179 Ollama Run
Gemma 4 12B 12B Q3_K_M 5.5 GB 0.56 GB 6.6 GB
55.8 GB free
182 Ollama Run
Qwen3.5 9B 9.65B Q3_K_M 4.4 GB 0.13 GB 5.1 GB
57.3 GB free
226 Ollama Run
Ornith 1.5 9B New this week 9.41B Q3_K_M 4.3 GB 0.13 GB 5.0 GB
57.4 GB free
231 Ollama Run
Ministral 3 8B 8.92B Q3_K_M 4.1 GB 0.53 GB 5.2 GB
57.2 GB free
244 Ollama Run
Granite 4.1 8B 8.79B Q3_K_M 4.0 GB 0.63 GB 5.2 GB
57.2 GB free
248 Ollama Run
LFM2.5 8B-A1B 8.47B MoE / 1.5B act Q3_K_M 3.9 GB 0.05 GB 4.5 GB
57.9 GB free
559 Ollama Run
Fara 7B 8.29B Q3_K_M 3.8 GB 0.22 GB 4.6 GB
57.8 GB free
263 llama.cpp Run
Qwen3 8B 8.19B Q3_K_M 3.7 GB 0.56 GB 4.9 GB
57.5 GB free
266 Ollama Run
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct 8.03B Q3_K_M 3.7 GB 0.50 GB 4.8 GB
57.6 GB free
271 Ollama Run
Gemma 4 E4B 8.0B Q3_K_M 3.6 GB 0.09 GB 4.3 GB
58.1 GB free
272 Ollama Run
Ling 3.0 Tiny 7.9B-A1.3B New 7.9B MoE / 1.3B act Q3_K_M 3.6 GB 0.03 GB 4.2 GB
58.2 GB free
645 llama.cpp Run
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 7B 7.62B Q3_K_M 3.5 GB 0.22 GB 4.3 GB
58.1 GB free
286 Ollama Run
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B 7.62B Q3_K_M 3.5 GB 0.22 GB 4.3 GB
58.1 GB free
286 Ollama Run
Olmo 3 7B Instruct 7.3B Q3_K_M 3.3 GB 2.00 GB 5.9 GB
56.5 GB free
298 Ollama Run
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 7.25B Q3_K_M 3.3 GB 0.50 GB 4.4 GB
58.0 GB free
300 Ollama Run
Gemma 4 E2B 5.1B Q3_K_M 2.3 GB 0.04 GB 3.0 GB
59.4 GB free
427 Ollama Run
Qwen3.5 4B 4.66B Q3_K_M 2.1 GB 0.13 GB 2.8 GB
59.6 GB free
467 Ollama Run
Gemma 3 4B 4.3B Q3_K_M 2.0 GB 0.20 GB 2.8 GB
59.6 GB free
507 Ollama Run
Qwen3 4B 4.02B Q3_K_M 1.8 GB 0.56 GB 3.0 GB
59.4 GB free
542 Ollama Run
Ministral 3 3B 3.85B Q3_K_M 1.8 GB 0.41 GB 2.8 GB
59.6 GB free
566 Ollama Run
Phi-4-mini 3.8B 3.84B Q3_K_M 1.7 GB 0.50 GB 2.8 GB
59.6 GB free
567 Ollama Run
Granite 4.1 3B 3.4B Q3_K_M 1.5 GB 0.31 GB 2.5 GB
59.9 GB free
641 Ollama Run
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 3.21B Q3_K_M 1.5 GB 0.44 GB 2.5 GB
59.9 GB free
679 Ollama Run
LFM2.5 2.6B New 2.7B Q3_K_M 1.2 GB 0.06 GB 1.9 GB
60.5 GB free
807 llama.cpp Run
Qwen3.5 2B 2.27B Q3_K_M 1.0 GB 0.05 GB 1.7 GB
60.7 GB free
960 Ollama Run
Qwen3 1.7B 1.72B Q3_K_M 0.8 GB 0.44 GB 1.8 GB
60.6 GB free
1267 Ollama Run
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct 1.24B Q3_K_M 0.6 GB 0.13 GB 1.3 GB
61.1 GB free
1757 Ollama Run
Gemma 3 1B 1.0B Q3_K_M 0.5 GB 0.03 GB 1.1 GB
61.3 GB free
2178 Ollama Run
Qwen3.5 0.8B 0.87B Q3_K_M 0.4 GB 0.05 GB 1.0 GB
61.4 GB free
2504 Ollama Run
Qwen3 0.6B 0.6B Q3_K_M 0.3 GB 0.44 GB 1.3 GB
61.1 GB free
3631 Ollama Run

Runs — tight

5 models · fits at 4K, drop context or quant to go longer
ModelParamsQuantWeights +KV 4KTotal VRAM headroom Tok/sRuntime
Qwen3.5 122B-A10B 125B MoE / 10B act Q3_K_M 56.9 GB 0.09 GB 57.6 GB
4.8 GB free
84 llama.cpp Run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B 124B MoE / 12B act Q3_K_M 56.4 GB 0.03 GB 57.1 GB
5.3 GB free
70 llama.cpp Run
Ling 3.0 Flash 124B-A5B New 124B MoE / 5.1B act Q3_K_M 56.4 GB 0.03 GB 57.1 GB
5.3 GB free
164 llama.cpp Run
Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B 119B MoE / 6.5B act Q3_K_M 54.2 GB 0.09 GB 54.9 GB
7.5 GB free
129 llama.cpp Run
gpt-oss 120B 117B MoE / 5.1B act MXFP4 60.5 GB 0.15 GB 61.3 GB
1.1 GB free
144 llama.cpp Run

Won't fit in VRAM

10 models · some are possible with CPU offload
ModelParamsQuantWeights +KV 4KTotal Over budget Tok/sRuntime
Kimi K3 2.8T-A104B New 2780B MoE / 104B act Q3_K_M 1265.4 GB 0.11 GB 1266.1 GB +1203.7 GB ~0.3 llama.cpp Why
Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B New 2446B MoE / 95B act Q3_K_M 1113.4 GB 0.36 GB 1114.3 GB +1051.9 GB ~0.3 llama.cpp Why
DeepSeek V4 Pro 1.6T-A49B New 1650B MoE / 49B act Q3_K_M 751.1 GB 0.27 GB 751.9 GB +689.5 GB ~0.7 llama.cpp Why
Kimi K2.6 1T-A32B 1027B MoE / 32B act Q3_K_M 467.5 GB 0.27 GB 468.3 GB +405.9 GB ~1.1 llama.cpp Why
GLM-5.2 744B-A40B 753B MoE / 40B act Q3_K_M 342.8 GB 0.34 GB 343.7 GB +281.3 GB ~0.9 llama.cpp Why
DeepSeek-R1 671B 671B MoE / 37B act Q3_K_M 305.4 GB 0.27 GB 306.3 GB +243.9 GB ~1.0 llama.cpp Why
Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 403B MoE / 17B act Q3_K_M 183.4 GB 0.12 GB 184.2 GB +121.8 GB ~2.7 llama.cpp Why
Ornith 1.5 397B-A17B New this week 397B MoE / 17B act Q3_K_M 180.7 GB 0.12 GB 181.4 GB +119.0 GB ~2.7 llama.cpp Why
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B New 284B MoE / 13B act Q3_K_M 129.3 GB 0.19 GB 130.1 GB +67.7 GB ~4.4 llama.cpp Why
Qwen3 235B-A22B 235B MoE / 22B act Q3_K_M 107.0 GB 0.73 GB 108.3 GB +45.9 GB ~3.1 llama.cpp Why

Totals = quantised weights + f16 KV cache at 4K tokens + 0.6 GB runtime overhead, against 62.4 GB usable VRAM (64 GB less display and driver reserve). Tokens per second are estimated from 1638 GB/s peak memory bandwidth at batch 1 — not measured. Read the method.