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AMD FirePro S9100

Running LLMs on the FirePro S9100 — the long read: which models fit at which quantisation, and the settings worth changing. · Or what a budget buys

VRAM
12 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
320
GB/S
MODELS Q4
248/449
55%
7B Q4 SPEED
~41
FAST
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q455% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~95
TOK/S
7B
~41
TOK/S
14B
~20
TOK/S
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ MEASURED RIG REPORTS

We rent the machine and time every model on it: decode, VRAM peak, concurrency, watts and cost per million tokens. Yours may already be one of them — and two are free to read in full.

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▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
12 GB
BANDWIDTH
320 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.2 TFLOPS
TDP
225W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
STREAM PROCESSORS
2,560
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
215
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
248
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
248
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 248
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
3160
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
2107
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
2032
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2032
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1111
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
1053
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
933
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
849
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
849
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
849
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
813
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
790
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
749
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
569
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
569
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
547
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
501
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
501
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
474
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
474
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
474
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
459
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
384
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
379
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
351
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
327
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
303
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
263
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
259
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
237
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
237
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
237
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
237
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
219
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
219
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
219
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
211
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
200
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
200
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
190
TOK/S · 46% VRAM
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WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH

FirePro S9100 holds 248 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is Ling-lite 16.8B at IQ4_XS.

TOKENS/SEC PER $100
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B · IQ4_XS10.7 GB88 tok/sEST
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B · Q4_K_S10.6 GB85 tok/sEST
StarCoder2 15B15.96B · Q4_K_S10.7 GB20 tok/sEST
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB85 tok/sEST
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB21 tok/sEST
DeepCoder 14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB21 tok/sEST
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB21 tok/sEST
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B · Q4_K_S10.4 GB21 tok/sEST
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
M4 Pro (24GB)16 GB$1,3992.5 tok/s per $100
M4 (24GB)16 GB$6992.9 tok/s per $100
M2 (24GB)16 GB$9991.7 tok/s per $100
M3 (24GB)16 GB$9991.7 tok/s per $100
FirePro S910012 GB

Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.

▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

AMD FirePro S9100 — 12 GB VRAM.

FIREPRO S9100 SPEC
BRAND
AMD
VRAM
12 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
320 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.2 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
4.2 TFLOPS
STREAM PROCESSORS
2,560
TDP
225 W
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
▸ AI CAPABILITY
248/ 449 models @ Q4

With 12 GB VRAM and 320 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 14.8B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~37 tok/s.

RENT IT — LIVE PRICES
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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR FIREPRO S9100
248 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B9.5 GB1943.9
DeepCoder 14B14.8B9.5 GB1938.7
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B9.5 GB1941.3
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B9.5 GB1941.3
Qwen3 14B14.8B9.5 GB1945.7
phi-4 14B14.66B9.4 GB1933.7
Phi-4-reasoning 14B14.66B9.4 GB1933.7
Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14B14.66B9.4 GB1975.5
Phi-3-medium-14b14B9.0 GB2033.7
Qwen 1.5 14B14B9.0 GB2041.3
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning13.95B9.0 GB20
Baichuan2 13B13B8.4 GB2223.6
Llama 2 13B13B8.4 GB2217.2
CodeLlama 13B13B8.4 GB2219.7
Vicuna 13B13B8.4 GB2211.8
LLaMA 1 13B13B8.4 GB2232.9
OPT 13B13B8.4 GB2235.8
Orca 2 13B13B8.4 GB2225.4
WizardCoder Python 13B13B8.4 GB2260.1
WizardLM 13B13B8.4 GB2219.5