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Can the Instinct MI210 64GB Run Llama 3.1 8B?

Runs

Yes. Llama 3.1 8B at Q4_K_M is a 4.9 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF), and the Instinct MI210 64GB has 64 GB of VRAM, leaving about 59.1 GB for the KV cache and runtime. No published speed measurement for this pair passes SpecPicks' sanity checks yet, so no tokens-per-second figure is quoted.

Model file4.9 GBQ4_K_M
VRAM64 GBInstinct MI210 64GB
Headroom59.1 GBafter weights
Median speed—0 cited runs
Bandwidth ceiling~333 tok/s1638 GB/s ÷ 4.92 GB

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Published runs for Llama 3.1 8B on the Instinct MI210 64GB

No published run for this pair has passed the checks yet. 1 row was rejected (see how the checks work below).

More about this pair

How much VRAM does Llama 3.1 8B need?

The Q4_K_M file is 4.9 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 6.4 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.

What speed does Llama 3.1 8B reach on the Instinct MI210 64GB?

No published run of Llama 3.1 8B on the Instinct MI210 64GB has been cited yet. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the Instinct MI210 64GB's 1638 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 4.92 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 333 tokens per second. That is an upper bound, not a speed estimate: kernel, launch and compute overhead keep real runs below it.

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How the checks work

The fit is the Q4_K_M file size against the card's VRAM, with 1.5 GB kept for the runtime and an ~8K context. A published run counts only if the pair fits, the run is Q4-class, its source does not call it an estimate, it is under the bandwidth ceiling (memory bandwidth ÷ GB read per token: the whole file for a dense model, only the active experts' weights for a mixture-of-experts model such as gpt-oss-20b or Qwen3 30B-A3B, which is why those can post figures above bandwidth ÷ file size), it is not slower than the same card on a model twice its size, a single run is not slower than the same card on a larger dense model, and it is not one figure pasted across many cards. The whole matrix is downloadable as a CSV under CC BY 4.0.

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