Best Local LLMs for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 15 lipca 2026

Best all-round pick: Qwen 3 8B

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has 8 GB of VRAM, of which about 8 GB is available to a model. The largest model it can hold is 1-bit Bonsai 27B (27B, 4.6 GB at Q4_K_M).

Best models overall on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Model	Score	Memory at Q4_K_M	Context	Licence
Qwen 3 8B	96.1	5.8 GB	125K	Apache 2.0
GLM-6 9B	93.3	6.2 GB	125K	MIT
GLM-4 9B	93.1	6.2 GB	125K	Apache-2.0
Qwen 3.5 7B	92.5	5 GB	125K	Apache 2.0
GLM-5 9B	92	6.2 GB	125K	MIT
Ternary Bonsai 27B	91.2	6.6 GB	256K	Apache 2.0

Best model by what you are doing

Workload	Recommended on this GPU
Coding	Qwen3-Coder 8B (96.3) Ternary Bonsai 27B (94.1) GLM-6 9B (93.2)
General assistant	Qwen 3 8B (96.1) GLM-6 9B (93.3) GLM-4 9B (93.1)
Reasoning	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B (94.8) Ternary Bonsai 27B (94.1) Qwen 3 8B (93.1)
RAG	Ternary Bonsai 27B (90.2) Ternary Bonsai 2 27B (86.1) GLM-4 9B (79.3)
Agents	Ternary Bonsai 27B (94) Ternary Bonsai 2 27B (88.8) GLM-6 9B (86.8)
Vision	Ternary Bonsai 27B (93.8) Gemma 4 E4B (91.6) Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct (91.6)

What the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB cannot run

These models are strong picks generally but exceed the 8 GB this card makes available.

Model	Needs at Q4_K_M	Short by
Gemma 4 27B ⭐	17.2 GB	~9.2 GB
Mistral Small 3.1 24B	15.1 GB	~7.1 GB
Qwen 3.5 14B	9.3 GB	~1.3 GB
Gemma 3 12B Instruct	8.1 GB	~0.1 GB

How these numbers are calculated

Usable memory is 8 GB of the card's 8 GB.
Fit is measured at Q4_K_M — quantized weights plus KV cache plus 0.8 GB runtime overhead.
Within this card's budget, models are ranked on how well they use the memory available, not on being small — so the recommendation scales with the hardware.

FAQ

What is the best LLM for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB?

Qwen 3 8B is the strongest all-round pick that fits its 8 GB.

What is the largest model the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB can run?

1-bit Bonsai 27B — 27B parameters, needing 4.6 GB at Q4_K_M.

How much of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB's memory can a model actually use?

About 8 GB of its 8 GB, before the desktop and runtime overhead are accounted for.

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