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Can the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) run qwen3.8 27B?

OFFLOAD PARTIAL

18.5 GB vs 16 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss

16GB · RDNA4 · model file 16.5GB · 27B

~21–32 tok/s

computed roofline: 640 GB/s × 0.55–0.82 efficiency window / 16.5GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run qwen3.8 27B on instead

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3.8 27B fully ($999)

radeon-9070-xt — the next step up from AMD Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT)

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