Hmm. The R9700 is RDNA4 - ROCm support for that architecture may be patchy in linux? Dunno. Check that before you commit your hard earned dollary-doos.
If all good
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B fits comfortably and is genuinely capable.
- Qwen3.5-27B (dense)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (MoE, only 3B active parameters)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B just dropped
Qwen 3.6 is the latest hotness. I’d start from there and work backwards