NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 32k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 13.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 288 GB/s. At 32k context both run the same 13 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).

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

Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 7600 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS45 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W190 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
gpt-oss 20B33tok/sMXFP429tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_012tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B17tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B12tok/sQ4_K_M11tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B12tok/sQ5_K_M11tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_012tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_012tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B32tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B13tok/sQ8_012tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B12tok/sQ8_011tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B20tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B40tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B16tok/sQ6_K15tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for speed.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
At 32k context both run the same 13 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).

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