AMD Instinct MI250X meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
AMD Instinct MI250X can run moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct with Q4 quantization. At approximately 176 tokens/second, you can expect Excellent speed - conversational response times under 1 second.
You have 103GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 25GB | 128GB | 176.20 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 50GB | 128GB | 112.96 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 101GB | 128GB | 63.27 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |