Can the Radeon 8060S (Strix Halo) 96 GB run SDXL 1.0?

01What to download

One file: the checkpoint already contains the text encoders and the VAE. Sizes from Hugging Face, 2026-10-01.

Shared memory: about 12.9 GB of your 128 GB. On this machine the model, the text encoder, the VAE and the operating system all use the same memory. That leaves room, so nothing has to be swapped to disk. calculated

02Every SDXL file on 96 GB

“Needed” adds 1.2 GB of working memory for SDXL and a 0.8 GB reserve. Sizes 2026-10-01. The 6.94 GB checkpoint also holds the two text encoders and the VAE. During sampling only the UNet (about 5.1 GB at 16-bit, 2.6B parameters) has to sit in VRAM, so that is the figure used for the 16-bit file.

03The text encoder

The text encoder is inside the checkpoint, so there is nothing extra to download.

04Measured and reported results

05About the Radeon 8060S (Strix Halo) 96 GB

This is an integrated GPU that uses system memory. AMD states that up to 96 GB of the 128 GB can be set aside as graphics memory on Windows, which is why it can hold models no consumer graphics card can. The catch is speed: the GPU itself (40 compute units) is far smaller than a big desktop card, and its memory bandwidth is a fraction of one, so each step takes much longer. Treat the verdicts here as 'it fits', not 'it is fast'.

96 GB LPDDR5X (shared system memory) · 256-bit · 256 GB/s · RDNA 3.5. Everything that runs on it →

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