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.
What fits at 16K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocinante-XL-16B-v1 | I1-IQ2_XS | 16.1B | 4.70 GiB | 1.79 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5 | BF16 | 8.5B | 5.43 GiB | 1.06 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| GLM-4.7-Flash-REAP-23B-A3BMoE | UD-TQ1_0 | 23.0B | 6.09 GiB | 0.44 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 59±37% |
| ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking | UD-TQ1_0 | 21.8B | 6.05 GiB | 0.46 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Forsaken-Void-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Silver-Siren-ST-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-12B-Runeweaver-RP-RU | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12b | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Impish_Bloodmoon_12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Wayfarer-2-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Wayfarer-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Muse-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Base-2407 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| writing-roleplay-20k-context-nemo-12b-v1.0 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| mini-magnum-12b-v1.1 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Lumimaid-v0.2-12B | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-Violet-Lotus-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Rocinante-X-12B-v1-Heretic-Uncensored | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Heretica-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Violet_Twilight-v0.2 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Lumimaid-Magnum-v4-12B | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| arcee-fusion-lumaid-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-NeMo-12B-Abliterated | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Rocinante-X-12B-v1-absolute-heresy | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Rocinante-X-12B-v1 | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Gutenberg-Doppel-12B | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| magnum-v4-12b | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-12b-RP-Ink | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-12B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.1 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-2407-12B-Thinking-Claude-Gemini-GPT5.2-Uncensored-HERETIC | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12b | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Inst-2407-12B-Thinking-Uncensored-HERETIC-HI-Claude-Opus | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-12B-Thinking-M-Claude-Opus-High-Reasoning | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mordant-12B-Think | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Riverfish-Rocinante-12B-SFT-DPO | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-Violet-Lotus-12B-Heretic | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Himeyuri-Magnum-12B-HereticMerge | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Kinggaroo-12b-v1 | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Magnum-Picaro-0.7-v2-12b | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| magnum-v2.5-12b-kto | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-Nemo-Prism-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Nera_Noctis-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| pixtral-12b | Q3_K_S | 12.7B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Chronos-Gold-12B-1.0 | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| patricide-12B-Unslop-Mell | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9 | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Crimson_Dawn-v0.2 | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| magnum-v2-12b | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Peaceful-Days-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| NemoMix-Unleashed-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Blissful-Days-12B | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Rocinante-12B-v1.1 | I1-Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| BlackSheep-RP-12B | Q3_K_S | 12.2B | 5.15 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| Mistral-7B-v0.1KV unresolved | IQ4_XS | 7.2B | 5.43 GiB | 1.06 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±26.5% |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 | IQ2_S | 8.9B | 4.62 GiB | 1.86 GiB | 7.42 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 22±26.5% |
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
| Workload◍ | Median | Middle 50% | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image generation | 2.06 it/s | 0.90–3.30 | 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.