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AMD Radeon Instinct MI300

Running LLMs on the Radeon Instinct MI300 — the long read: which models fit at which quantisation, and the settings worth changing. · Or what else $12,000 buys

VRAM
128 GB
FLAGSHIP
BANDWIDTH
6550
GB/S
MODELS Q4
397/449
88%
7B Q4 SPEED
~832
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q488% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~1941
TOK/S
7B
~832
TOK/S
14B
~416
TOK/S
32B
~182
TOK/S
70B
~83
TOK/S
▸ MEASURED RIG REPORTS

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▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
128 GB
BANDWIDTH
6550 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
383 TFLOPS
TDP
600W
MEMORY
HBM3
ARCHITECTURE
CDNA 3.0
STREAM PROCESSORS
14,080
COMPUTE UNITS
110
PCIE
Gen 5 x16
MSRP
$12,000
397
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
397
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
397
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 397
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
64691
TOK/S · 0% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
43128
TOK/S · 0% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
41587
TOK/S · 0% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
41587
TOK/S · 0% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
22743
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
21564
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
19089
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
17380
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
17380
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
17380
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
16635
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
16173
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
15322
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
11644
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
11644
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
11197
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
10250
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
10250
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
9704
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
9704
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
9704
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
9391
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
7868
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
7763
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
7188
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
6692
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
6194
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
5391
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
5293
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
4852
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
4852
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
4852
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
4852
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
4479
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
4479
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
4479
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
4313
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
4100
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
4100
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
3881
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
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WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH

Radeon Instinct MI300 holds 397 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is Step 3.7 Flash at IQ4_XS.

TOKENS/SEC PER $100
5.8
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
1.07 GB
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
Step 3.7 Flash201.37B · IQ4_XS115.0 GB548 tok/sEST
Falcon 180B180B · Q4_K_M113.8 GB39 tok/sEST
dots.llm1.inst 142.8B142.8B · Q5_K_M108.1 GB42 tok/sEST
WizardLM 2 8x22B141B · Q5_K_M103.8 GB153 tok/sEST
Mixtral-8x22B140.6B · Q5_K_M103.6 GB152 tok/sEST
DBRX 132B132B · Q6_K111.4 GB144 tok/sEST
Mistral Medium 3.5128B · Q6_K108.8 GB40 tok/sEST
Pixtral Large 124B124B · Q6_K105.6 GB42 tok/sEST
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
M4 Ultra (192GB)144 GB$7,4991.2 tok/s per $100
M2 Ultra (192GB)144 GB$5,4991.3 tok/s per $100
M3 Ultra (192GB)144 GB$6,9991.0 tok/s per $100
B300144 GB$35,0000.1 tok/s per $100
Radeon Instinct MI300128 GB$12,0005.8 tok/s per $100

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 Radeon Instinct MI300 — 128 GB VRAM.

RADEON INSTINCT MI300 SPEC
BRAND
AMD
VRAM
128 GB HBM3
BANDWIDTH
6550 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
383 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
47.9 TFLOPS
STREAM PROCESSORS
14,080
TDP
600 W
ARCHITECTURE
CDNA 3.0
MSRP
$12000
▸ AI CAPABILITY
397/ 449 models @ Q4

With 128 GB VRAM and 6550 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 180B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~749 tok/s.

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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RADEON INSTINCT MI300
397 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Falcon 180B180B110.5 GB3251.3
bloom 176.2B176.2B108.2 GB3315.0
dots.llm1.inst 142.8B142.8B87.8 GB41
WizardLM 2 8x22B141B86.7 GB14942.4
Mixtral-8x22B140.6B86.4 GB14931.9
DBRX 132B132B81.2 GB16246.3
Mistral Medium 3.5128B78.7 GB4546.6
Pixtral Large 124B124B76.3 GB4739.3
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B123.61B76.0 GB48553.2
Mistral-Large 123B123B75.7 GB4733.5
Devstral 2 123B123B75.7 GB4738.1
Qwen 3.5 122B A10B122B75.1 GB58256.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B120B73.8 GB48557.3
Mistral Small 4 119B119B73.2 GB89650.2
GPT-OSS 120B117B72.0 GB114254.1
Command A 111B111B68.3 GB5227.6
GLM 4.5 Air110B67.7 GB48551.0
Qwen 1.5 110B110B67.7 GB5333.4
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E109B67.1 GB34233.9
Cogito v2 109B MoE109B67.1 GB342