Can I run it?
Can I run granite 4.2 8b on Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Runs
Runs fully on your Radeon RX 9070 XT at Q8_0, 8K context, about 33–45 tok/s. Weights 8.70 GB plus 1.25 GB of KV cache — 10.3 GB of 14.7 GB usable. Up to 32K context still fits.
Best quantQ8_0
Working context8K
Max that fits32K
Speed33–45 tok/s
Weights8.70 GB
KV cache1.25 GB
Total10.3 GB
Usable14.7 GB
granite 4.2 8b details · Radeon RX 9070 XT page · How this estimate is made
Run commands
llama.cpp
llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q8_0 -c 8192 -ngl 40
No matching name in the Ollama library snapshot.
LM Studio
lms get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF # Then load quant Q8_0
Assumptions
- Estimate, not a benchmark. Decode speed uses a memory-bandwidth model at 55–75% of peak.
- KV cache is FP16. Engine overhead assumes llama.cpp (0.3 GB + 1% of the weights). Ollama is closer to 0.9 GB + 3%, LM Studio closer to 1 GB + 3%.
- Q8_0 size is the real GGUF file size from Hugging Face.
- 0.5 GB is reserved because this GPU also drives a display, then 5% of the rest is left free.
- Speed is quoted at 8K context, not at the maximum context that still fits.
Larger models that also fit
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- Can I run gemma 4 12b it on Radeon RX 9070 XT? — Tight fit, UD-Q8_K_XL, 21–28 tok/s
- Can I run Qwen3.5 9B on Radeon RX 9070 XT? — Tight fit, UD-Q8_K_XL, 27–36 tok/s
Updated 2026-10-24. Profile on this page is the device default plus 32 GB of DDR5-5600 system RAM.