AMD · consumer

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. 1182 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K 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 995audio asr 38embedding 26vision language 95video 7image 1audio tts 20

What fits at 32K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1182 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Assistant_Pepe_8BQ4_K_S4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
stable-code-3bI1-IQ3_M2.8B1.23 GiB5.31 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
INTELLECT-1-InstructI1-Q2_K10.2B3.71 GiB2.79 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Foundation-Sec-8B-InstructI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct-hereticI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
dolphin-2.9-llama3-8bQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
saiga_llama3_8bQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Meta-Llama-3-8B-InstructQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5Q4_K_S8.5B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama3-ChatQA-1.5-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Meta-Llama-3-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3-Groq-8B-Tool-UseQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
llama3.1-heretic-unsensoredI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
dolphin-2.9.4-llama3.1-8bQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-abliteratedQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_BETAQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Anubis-Mini-8B-v1I1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Meta-Llama-3-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Deepseek-R1-Distill-NSFW-RPv1Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8B-hereticI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Gluon-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Heretic-Uncensored-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Hypnos-i1-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
grok-oss-Apollyon-8B-hereticI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K-JbliteratedI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
PsyCoPref-Llama3-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama3.1-GptDeluxe-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
SelfCite-8B-CC-SFTI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
ai-girlfriend-v2I1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K_AbliteratedI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Aisha-Uncensored-v2I1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
grok-oss-Apollyon-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
HARC-Llama-3.1-8B-InstructI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Lumen-1.2.5I1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128KI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Stoicism1_Llama3.1-8b-instructI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
grok-oss-Thanatos-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored-V2Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-8B-InstructQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
L3-8B-Sunfall-v0.5-Stheno-v3.2Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
OpenElla-NovelWriter-Requiem-AscendedI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8BQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llavaI1-Q4_K_S8.5B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.3-UncensoredI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
calme-2.3-legalkit-8bI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama3.1-DilemmaDeluxe-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-8B-Stheno-v3.4I1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.0-UncensoredI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.2-UncensoredQ4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
SzilviaB-Daredevil-LongWriter-8B_abliteratedI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1-SuperNova-LiteI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Humanish-Roleplay-Llama-3.1-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB22±26.5%
Llama-3.1_OpenScholar-8BI1-Q4_K_S8.0B4.37 GiB2.13 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 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?
1182 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a Radeon RX 6600 at 32,768 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Assistant_Pepe_8B at Q4_K_S. 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.