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Radeon RX 6600

Radeon RX 6600 has 8 GB of VRAM at 224 GB/s — about 7.44 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1345 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with q8_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
128-bit bus
Tensor FP16
dense
TDP
132 W
$329 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1153vision language 98embedding 26video 7image 2audio tts 21audio asr 38

What fits at 16K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1345 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Rocinante-XL-16B-v1I1-IQ2_XS16.1B4.70 GiB1.79 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5BF168.5B5.43 GiB1.06 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
GLM-4.7-Flash-REAP-23B-A3BMoEUD-TQ1_023.0B6.09 GiB0.44 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB59±37%
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-ThinkingUD-TQ1_021.8B6.05 GiB0.46 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Forsaken-Void-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Silver-Siren-ST-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-12B-Runeweaver-RP-RUI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12bI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Impish_Bloodmoon_12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Wayfarer-2-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Wayfarer-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Muse-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Base-2407Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
writing-roleplay-20k-context-nemo-12b-v1.0Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
mini-magnum-12b-v1.1Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Lumimaid-v0.2-12BQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-Violet-Lotus-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1-Heretic-UncensoredI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Heretica-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Violet_Twilight-v0.2Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Lumimaid-Magnum-v4-12BQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
arcee-fusion-lumaid-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-NeMo-12B-AbliteratedI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1-absolute-heresyI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1I1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Gutenberg-Doppel-12BQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
magnum-v4-12bQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-12b-RP-InkQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-12B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.1Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-2407-12B-Thinking-Claude-Gemini-GPT5.2-Uncensored-HERETICI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12bI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Inst-2407-12B-Thinking-Uncensored-HERETIC-HI-Claude-OpusI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-12B-Thinking-M-Claude-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mordant-12B-ThinkI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Riverfish-Rocinante-12B-SFT-DPOI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-Violet-Lotus-12B-HereticI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Himeyuri-Magnum-12B-HereticMergeI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Kinggaroo-12b-v1I1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Magnum-Picaro-0.7-v2-12bI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
magnum-v2.5-12b-ktoI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-Nemo-Prism-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Nera_Noctis-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
pixtral-12bQ3_K_S12.7B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Chronos-Gold-12B-1.0I1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
patricide-12B-Unslop-MellI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9I1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Crimson_Dawn-v0.2Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
magnum-v2-12bI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Peaceful-Days-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
NemoMix-Unleashed-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Blissful-Days-12BI1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Rocinante-12B-v1.1I1-Q3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
BlackSheep-RP-12BQ3_K_S12.2B5.15 GiB1.33 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
Mistral-7B-v0.1KV unresolvedIQ4_XS7.2B5.43 GiB1.06 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB22±26.5%
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2IQ2_S8.9B4.62 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB22±26.5%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Measured on this card

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation2.06 it/s0.903.3091
Benchmarked· n=91

Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a Radeon RX 6600 run?
1345 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a Radeon RX 6600 at 16,384 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Rocinante-XL-16B-v1 at I1-IQ2_XS. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a Radeon RX 6600 actually have?
Its nameplate is 8 GB, but about 7.44 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a Radeon RX 6600 fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 224 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.