RX 7600 XT meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
RX 7600 XT can run Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct with Q4 quantization. At approximately 40 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 13GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 3GB | 16GB | 40.19 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 5GB | 16GB | 33.49 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 11GB | 16GB | 17.10 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |