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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 64k context the first runs 55 models fully in memory, the second 33.

In short

The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 has more memory for models: 32 GB against 20 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 55 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 33; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 1.3× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs $2,840 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $1,200 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $1,640 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

$2,840

Amazon

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

$1,200

eBay

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPURadeon AI PRO R9700Radeon RX 7900 XT
Memory32 GB GDDR620 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth640 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute191 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmROCm
Board power300 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Qwen 3.8 27B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 31B11tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B55tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.5 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B37tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B55tok/sQ6_Koffload
GLM 4.7 Flash28tok/sQ6_Koffload
Devstral Small 2 24B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B64tok/sUD-Q5_K_Moffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B88tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B52tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B24tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 12B25tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B30tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Ministral 3 14B14tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B13tok/sQ8_0offload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B12tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 4B53tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B19tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B18tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 E4B35tok/sQ8_044tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B49tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B23tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B263tok/sQ8_0329tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B215tok/sQ8_0269tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B156tok/sQ5_K_M195tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B93tok/sQ8_0117tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B64tok/sQ8_080tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B64tok/smlx-4bit80tok/smlx-4bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking58tok/sQ8_073tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260952tok/sQ8_065tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B51tok/sQ8_064tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B51tok/sQ8_064tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250641tok/sQ8_051tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B40tok/smlx-8bit58tok/smlx-6bit
granite vision 4.1 4b39tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b38tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041432tok/smlx-5bit40tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B30tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 24B A2B28tok/sQ8_0offload
GLM 4.6V Flash28tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking24tok/smlx-8bit30tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B21tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251219tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED14tok/smlx-4bitoffload
Devstral Small 250713tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
Magistral Small 250713tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
Magistral Small 250913tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B12tok/sQ8_0offload
Magistral Small 250612tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airoffloadwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadwon't run
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 64k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 55 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 33; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 1.3× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In Canada the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs $2,840 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $1,200 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $1,640 cheaper.

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