Builds / AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 (1 of 2 cards in the rig used)
Radeon AI Pro R9700: Qwen3.6 27B on Vulkan, HIP and Ollama, with and without MTP
Source: localaifrontier.com ↗📏 How measured: reported by the original source; RigBase re-checked the numbers at that source
Legacy models only. Every model measured on this rig now has a newer successor: Qwen3.6 27B → Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.6 27B → Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.6 27B → Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.6 27B → Qwen3.8 27B. The hardware numbers are still a useful reference.
- GPU(s)
- AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 (1 of 2 cards in the rig used)
Amazon · eBay (used) · Newegg - VRAM / unified memory (GB)
- 32
- CPU
- not stated
- Motherboard
- not stated
- RAM
- not stated
- PSU
- not stated
- Other
- Second R9700 not used (no tensor splitting)
- Reported total cost
- not stated
- Power
- not stated
Measured speed (generation tokens/sec)
| Model | Quant | Engine | tok/s | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 27B legacy | Q4_K_M + MTP draft head (draft-n-max 3), 64K context | llama.cpp Vulkan | 66.0 | ⚡ spec-decode (MTP) |
| Qwen3.6 27B legacy | Q4_K_M, no MTP | llama.cpp Vulkan | 31.9 | |
| Qwen3.6 27B legacy | Q4_K_M | llama.cpp HIP (ROCm) | 27.1 | |
| Qwen3.6 27B legacy | Q4_K_M | Ollama (HIP) | 26.7 |
Local AI Frontier, measured 2026-06-30 on one coding prompt (merge sort), 256-512 generated tokens, temperature 0, best of 3 runs per backend. Treat backend ordering as the takeaway rather than exact speeds.
Current GPU street price (estimate, not the builder's cost)
New retail prices in Germany incl. VAT; used cards are often much cheaper. Prices change daily.
- 1× Radeon AI Pro R9700: ≈€1,848 each (≈$2,071), new, approx. price as of 2026-10-24, lowest listing on billiger.de (PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700 32 GB GDDR6)
New retail prices in Germany incl. VAT; used cards are often much cheaper. Prices change daily.
Source: https://localaifrontier.com/benchmarks/qwen3-6-27b-mtp-backend-showdown-r9700/
Blank fields = not stated in the source. We never estimate build data; GPU street prices above are separately sourced and dated.
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Quick answers: Can Radeon AI Pro R9700 run Qwen3.6 27B?