GEEKOM A9 Max 2026 Edition

Hardware · AMD

What AI models can the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB) run?

Unified memory
128 GB
Usable for models
96.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
90 GB/s
FP16 compute
25.4 TFLOPS
Released
2026

macOS lets the GPU use roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of unified memory by default, so we plan around that figure rather than the full 128 GB.

More about this hardware

MakerAMD
TypeUnified-memory system on a chip
GPU share of memory75% (what the GPU can typically be given for a model)
ChipAMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM)

Apps that run models well on the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB)

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Best LLMs for the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB)

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B)Aleph Alpha Q4_K_M 56.1 GB 25.1 tok/s Runs well
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B ThinkingAlibaba Q4_K_M 58.1 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Coder Next (80B-A3B)Alibaba Q4_K_M 57.1 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. gpt-oss 120BOpenAI MXFP4 75.2 GB 18.6 tok/s Runs well
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B InstructAlibaba Q4_K_M 58.1 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Flint (40B-A2.5B)Recursive Q4_K_M 32.8 GB 33.6 tok/s Runs great
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA Q4_K_M 54.0 GB 10.2 tok/s Runs well
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba Q4_K_M 30.4 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB Q4_K_M 29.9 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba Q4_K_M 30.4 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B)Nex-AGI Q4_K_M 29.9 GB 28.5 tok/s Runs well
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ling 3.0 Flash (127B-A5B)Ant Group (inclusionAI) Q4_K_M 86.4 GB 17.5 tok/s Runs welltight fit

Best Image models for the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB)

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniMax H3 ImageMiniMax FP8 72.0 GB 33 s Runs well
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Krea 2 TurboKrea FP16 37.4 GB 16 s Runs well
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs FP16 37.1 GB 6.5 s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ideogram 4Ideogram FP16 57.3 GB 1.5 min Slow
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ming-Image 0.1 DesignAnt Group (inclusionAI) FP16 63.9 GB 59 s Slow
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Cosmos3-Super Text2Image (64B)NVIDIA FP8 69.1 GB 2.2 min Slow

Best Video models for the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB)

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio)Lightricks FP8 48.3 GB 5.0 min Runs well
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.3Lightricks FP16 75.4 GB 24.2 min Slow
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniMax H3 (33B, video + audio)MiniMax Q8 GGUF 68.2 GB 72.4 min Very slow
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2 (19B, video + audio)Lightricks FP16 75.4 GB 24.2 min Slow
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.2 I2V A14BAlibaba FP16 58.0 GB 1.6 h Very slow

Best Decision models for the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (DDR5 SO-DIMM) (128 GB)

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI F16 9.7 GB 51 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI F16 9.7 GB 51 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. mxbai-rerank-large v2Mixedbread Q8_0 10.0 GB 86 ms Runs great
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. d1 3BLiquid AI Q6_K 10.9 GB 102 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FRIDA-DecisionsSber AI F16 2.4 GB 21 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GLiNER2.5 DecideFastino F16 1.7 GB 14 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LemonDecider 4BAnt Group (inclusionAI) F16 10.8 GB 96 ms Runs great
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 0.6BAlibaba F16 9.7 GB 51 ms Runs great

Best LLMs by task on this hardware Open in Model Finder

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.

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