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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 32k context the first runs 36 models fully in memory, the second 35.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super has 672 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 640 GB/s. At 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 35; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is about 1.2× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs $1,500 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 $1,074 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is $426 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

$1,500

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 9070

$1,074

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperAMD Radeon RX 9070
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperRadeon RX 9070
Memory16 GB GDDR6X16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s640 GB/s
FP16 compute88 TFLOPS36.1 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power285 W220 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperAMD Radeon RX 9070
gpt-oss 20B77tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B31tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B39tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B29tok/sQ4_K_M25tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B28tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B31tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B31tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B74tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B31tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B28tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B45tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B94tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B38tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B446tok/sQ8_0377tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B338tok/sQ8_0285tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B224tok/sQ5_K_M190tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B147tok/sQ8_0124tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B102tok/sQ8_086tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B97tok/smlx-4bit82tok/smlx-4bit
LFM2.5 2.6B85tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B85tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250685tok/sQ4_K_M72tok/sQ4_K_M
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking79tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260973tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B71tok/smlx-6bit60tok/smlx-6bit
granite vision 4.1 4b66tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b63tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251258tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041443tok/smlx-5bit37tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B42tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash37tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B33tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking32tok/smlx-8bit27tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251231tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251228tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B27tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
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
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
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
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
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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
At 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 35; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is about 1.2× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs $1,500 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 $1,074 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is $426 cheaper.

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