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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 32k context the first runs 23 models fully in memory, the second 36.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 12 GB. At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 23; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs $1,181 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $1,200 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is $19 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

$1,181

Amazon

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

$1,200

eBay

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 5070Radeon RX 7900 XT
Memory12 GB GDDR720 GB GDDR6
Memory bus192-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute62 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power250 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload24tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload75tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload82tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B39tok/sQ6_K33tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B39tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14Boffload27tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14Boffload25tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B74tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M32tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B38tok/sQ4_K_M30tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B45tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B94tok/sQ8_099tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B38tok/sQ6_K40tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B446tok/sQ8_0471tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B338tok/sQ8_0357tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B224tok/sQ5_K_M237tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B147tok/sQ8_0155tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B102tok/sQ8_0108tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B85tok/sQ8_090tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B85tok/sQ8_090tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b66tok/sQ8_070tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b63tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash56tok/sQ4_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B42tok/sQ8_044tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251239tok/sQ5_K_M32tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B38tok/sQ6_K34tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload83tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload62tok/smlx-8bit
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffload67tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload34tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
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
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
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 V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won'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 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won'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 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 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 23; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs $1,181 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $1,200 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is $19 cheaper.

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