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Can the Radeon PRO W7900 48GB run qwen3 1.7B?

FULL

1.8 GB needed of 48 GB usable — headroom for context

48GB · RDNA3 · model file 1.4GB · 1.7B

~310–460 tok/s

computed roofline: 864 GB/s × 0.50–0.75 efficiency window / 1.4GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run qwen3 1.7B on instead

Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 1.7B fully ($35)

rtx-pro-6000 — the next step up from Radeon PRO W7900 48GB

every model the Radeon PRO W7900 48GB can run — full list

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