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Can the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB run gemma3 27B?

NO

18.9 GB vs 8 GB usable — does not fit

8GB · RDNA1 · model file 17GB · 27B

~4–7.9 tok/s

computed roofline: 224 GB/s × 0.30–0.60 efficiency window / 17.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run gemma3 27B on instead

→ Tesla V100 32GB (used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs gemma3 27B fully ($700)

→ rx-6600 — the next step up from AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

→ every model the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB can run — full list

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2026-10-01 · ← all models on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory