Radeon RX 6650 XT
Radeon RX 6650 XT has 8 GB of VRAM at 280 GB/s — about 7.44 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1174 of 2118 indexed models fit at 64K context with q4_0 KV.
What fits at 64K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 | IQ4_XS | 8.0B | 4.11 GiB | 2.39 GiB | 7.44 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat-Uncensored-Unbiased-ReasonerMoE | Q2_K | 15.7B | 5.99 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 66±37% |
| Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B | IQ4_XS | 8.1B | 3.97 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-BaseMoE | I1-Q2_K | 15.7B | 5.99 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 66±37% |
| DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-InstructMoE | Q2_K | 15.7B | 5.99 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 66±37% |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite-ChatMoE | Q2_K | 15.7B | 5.99 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 66±37% |
| qwen-indic-v1 | IQ4_XS | 7.6B | 3.97 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Falcon3-10B-Instruct | Q2_K | 10.3B | 3.65 GiB | 2.81 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Parasite | I1-Q4_1 | 7.2B | 4.24 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Jbliterated | I1-Q4_1 | 7.2B | 4.24 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 | Q4_1 | 7.2B | 4.24 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Mistral-7B-v0.3-Chinese-Chat | Q4_1 | 7.2B | 4.24 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| LFM2-24B-A2BMoE | IQ2_XS | 23.8B | 6.17 GiB | 0.35 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 84±37% |
| Nexa-AI-4x4B-InstructMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 12.1B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 22±37% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-Uncensored-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| PopiT-Qwen3-4B-Medical-SFT-1128 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAX | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Zubr1.0-VL-4B | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking-Unredacted-MAX | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Huihui-Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-Uncensored | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Logics-Parsing-v2 | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Jan-v1-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| OpenCaption-4B-VL-SFT-v1.0 | Q8_0 | 4.4B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Z-Image-Engineer-V6 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4b-Z-Image-Turbo-AbliteratedV1 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Huihui-Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Josiefied-Qwen3-4B-abliterated-v2 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Jan-nano-128k | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Jan-nano | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Qwen3.6-plus-Reasoning-Distilled | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Kimi2.5-Reasoning-Distilled | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Neuron-4B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| ChineseErrorCorrector4-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct_NSFW-V2.1 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-abliterated-v2 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| LocoOperator-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| fable-traces-abliterated | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Nexa-AI-4B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| fable-traces | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Lumen-4B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| CyberSecQwen-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-HereticLM-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Huihui-Qwen3-4B-abliterated-v2 | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Base | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-Reranker-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Ternary-Bonsai-4B-unpacked | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Octen-Embedding-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| Qwen3-Embedding-4B | Q8_0 | 4.0B | 3.99 GiB | 2.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 27±26.5% |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat-UncensoredMoE | Q2_K | 15.7B | 5.98 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 7.43 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 66±37% |
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 | 3.97 it/s | 2.63–4.85 | 138 |
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 6650 XT run?
- 1174 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a Radeon RX 6650 XT at 65,536 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 at IQ4_XS. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
- How much usable memory does a Radeon RX 6650 XT 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 6650 XT fast for local AI?
- Its memory bandwidth is 280 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.