Which local LLMs can the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) run?
Assumes 8k context and an f16 KV cache. Verdicts are shown for each memory size.
Specs
- Memory options
- 32 GB · 64 GB · 128 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 256.0 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 29.7 TFLOPS
- Launch year
- 2025
- Price
- $1,999 launch MSRP
Verdicts at a glance
At Q4_K_M (or the closest available quant) with 8k context.
- 32 GBRuns great12 modelsRuns well7 modelsRuns slowly5 modelsWon't run5 models1 more model runs at a lower quant.
- 64 GBRuns great13 modelsRuns well7 modelsRuns slowly5 modelsWon't run4 models2 more models run at a lower quant.
- 128 GBRuns great15 modelsRuns well8 modelsRuns slowly5 modelsWon't run1 model1 more model runs at a lower quant.
How to read the verdicts
- Runs great
- Fully on the GPU at 20 tok/s or more
- Runs well
- Fully on the GPU at 8–20 tok/s; MoE experts in system RAM at 20 tok/s or more; or at least 90% on the GPU at 8 tok/s or more
- Runs slowly
- 2–8 tok/s; CPU-only; less than 90% on the GPU; or MoE experts in system RAM below 20 tok/s
- Won't run
- Does not fit, or under 2 tok/s
Every model on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)
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| Model | Verdict | Speed | Quant | Memory | Runs as | Context | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXAONE 4.0 1.2B | Runs great | est. 126.7 tok/s101.4–152.0calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 1.9 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k | — |
| HyperCLOVA X SEED 1.5B | Runs great | est. 91.7 tok/s73.3–110.0calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 2.4 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Runs great | est. 66.0 tok/s52.8–79.2calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 23.4 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 128k | — |
| gpt-oss-20b | Runs great | est. 59.3 tok/s47.5–71.2calibrated estimate ±20% | MXFP4 | 12.9 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k |
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| gpt-oss-120b | Runs great | 50.2 tok/s8k estimate 44.2 tok/s (35.4–53.0, calibrated estimate ±20%)measured (1 run, 2k context) | MXFP4 | 64.3 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k |
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| Qwen3 30B-A3B (2507) | Runs great | est. 48.2 tok/s38.6–57.9calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 19.9 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k | — |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Runs great | est. 46.9 tok/s37.6–56.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 17.9 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k | — |
| Kanana 1.5 15.7B-A3B | Runs great | est. 44.2 tok/s35.4–53.1calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 12.1 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k | — |
| Kanana 1.5 8B | Runs great | est. 27.8 tok/s22.2–33.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 6.6 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| Llama 3.1 8B | Runs great | est. 27.8 tok/s22.2–33.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 6.6 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| Qwen3.5 9B | Runs great | est. 27.1 tok/s21.7–32.5calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 6.7 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k | — |
| Qwen3 8B | Runs great | est. 26.7 tok/s21.3–32.0calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 6.8 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| Gemma 4 12B | Runs great | est. 21.7 tok/s17.4–26.1calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 8.2 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| Gemma 3 12B | Runs great | est. 21.2 tok/s17.0–25.5calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 8.4 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 8k | — |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Runs great | est. 21.0 tok/s16.8–25.2calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 79.0 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Runs well | est. 27.8 tok/s22.2–33.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 6.6 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k |
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| HyperCLOVA X SEED Think 14B | Runs well | est. 16.3 tok/s11.4–21.2theoretical estimate ±30% | Q4_K_M | 10.8 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k |
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| Qwen3 14B | Runs well | est. 16.1 tok/s12.9–19.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 10.9 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k |
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| Phi-4 | Runs well | est. 15.5 tok/s12.4–18.6calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 11.3 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 16k |
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| Solar Open 100B | Runs well | est. 15.3 tok/s12.2–18.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 64.4 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k |
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| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Runs well | est. 10.6 tok/s8.5–12.7calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 16.2 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k | — |
| Gemma 3 27B | Runs well | est. 9.7 tok/s7.7–11.6calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 17.8 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k | — |
| Qwen3.5 27B | Runs well | est. 9.4 tok/s7.5–11.3calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 18.2 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k | — |
| EXAONE 4.0 32B | Runs slowly | est. 8.4 tok/s6.7–10.0calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 20.5 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 128k |
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| EXAONE 4.5 33B | Runs slowly | est. 8.1 tok/s6.5–9.7calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 21.2 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 256k |
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| Qwen3 32B | Runs slowly | est. 7.6 tok/s6.1–9.1calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 22.5 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 32k |
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| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | Runs slowly | est. 7.6 tok/s6.1–9.1calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 22.6 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 128k |
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| Llama 3.3 70B | Runs slowly | est. 3.7 tok/s2.9–4.4calibrated estimate ±20% | Q4_K_M | 45.8 / 89.6 GB | Unified memory | up to 64k | — |
| Solar Open 2 250B | Won't runTry Q2_K (heavy quality loss): Runs slowly | est. 18.0 tok/s12.6–23.4theoretical estimate ±30% | Q2_K | 95.8 GB RAM | CPU only | up to 256k |
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Reasoning models spend extra tokens thinking, so their speed thresholds are 1.5× stricter (30 / 12 / 3 tok/s).
Verdict by memory size
| Model | 32 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXAONE 4.0 1.2B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| HyperCLOVA X SEED 1.5B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Runs slowly | Runs great | Runs great |
| gpt-oss-20b | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| gpt-oss-120b | Won't run | Won't run | Runs great |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B (2507) | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Kanana 1.5 15.7B-A3B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Kanana 1.5 8B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Llama 3.1 8B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Qwen3.5 9B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Qwen3 8B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Gemma 4 12B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Gemma 3 12B | Runs great | Runs great | Runs great |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Won't run | Won't run | Runs great |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| HyperCLOVA X SEED Think 14B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| Qwen3 14B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| Phi-4 | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| Solar Open 100B | Won't run | Won't run | Runs well |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| Gemma 3 27B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| Qwen3.5 27B | Runs well | Runs well | Runs well |
| EXAONE 4.0 32B | Runs slowly | Runs slowly | Runs slowly |
| EXAONE 4.5 33B | Runs slowly | Runs slowly | Runs slowly |
| Qwen3 32B | Runs slowly | Runs slowly | Runs slowly |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | Runs slowly | Runs slowly | Runs slowly |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Won't run | Runs slowly | Runs slowly |
| Solar Open 2 250B | Won't run | Won't run | Won't run |
Measured results on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)
Public benchmarks we calibrate against. Their conditions (context, backend, flags) can differ from the estimates above.
| Model | Quant | Backend | Context | Prompt (tok/s) | Generation (tok/s) | Flags | Source | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-120b | MXFP4 | llama.cpp | 2k | 707.0 | 50.2 | ROCm7 | quozul.dev | 2025-10-27 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the largest model that runs entirely on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)?
Qwen3.5 122B-A10B at Q4_K_M (a 78.26 GB file) fits entirely in 128 GB of unified memory with 8k context, at est. 21.0 tok/s (16.8–25.2, calibrated estimate ±20%).
How many local LLMs run well on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)?
At Q4_K_M with 8k context, with 128 GB of memory, out of 29 tracked models: 15 run great, 8 run well, 5 run slowly and 1 won't run.
Can the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) run a 70B model like Llama 3.3 70B?
Runs slowly — Unified memory, Q4_K_M: est. 3.7 tok/s (2.9–4.4, calibrated estimate ±20%).
Speeds are estimates from memory bandwidth, calibrated against public benchmarks, and each one comes with an error band and a confidence label. Real results vary with drivers, backend, context length and thermals.