Qwen3 14B on AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB)

Can the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB) run Qwen3 14B?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 14.8 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 18.3 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 18.3 tok/s
Prompt processing: 1,923 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.5 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB)

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

Built for Ryzen AI and Strix Halo, including NPU + iGPU modes on Windows.

lemonade pull Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

On Linux

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

Built for Ryzen AI and Strix Halo, including NPU + iGPU modes on Windows.

lemonade pull Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Qwen3 14B

Recommended for the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB): Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run qwen3:14b-q4_K_M

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs well: How well it runs on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	29.1 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	10.1 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	7.1 / 15
Match score	71.3 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (64 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	11.7 GB	48.0 GB	30.0 tok/s	Runs great	47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	13.0 GB	48.0 GB	23.6 tok/s	Runs well	57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	14.8 GB	48.0 GB	18.3 tok/s	Runs well	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	16.3 GB	48.0 GB	15.1 tok/s	Runs well	65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	17.9 GB	48.0 GB	12.7 tok/s	Runs well	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	21.5 GB	48.0 GB	9.3 tok/s	Slow	68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	35.4 GB	48.0 GB	4.3 tok/s	Slow	68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 42.6 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 39.5 tok/s · Runs great
67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q6_K · 47.6 tok/s · Runs great
65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q5_K_M · 46.0 tok/s · Runs great
65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q5_K_M · 50.4 tok/s · Runs great
65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q5_K_M · 61.4 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen3 14B need on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 64GB?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 14.8 GB. The AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 64GB has 48.0 GB usable.

How fast is Qwen3 14B on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 64GB?

About 18.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Qwen3 14B should I use on the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 64GB?

Q4_K_M. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.