NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 23 models fully in memory, the second 22.
In short
Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 23 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 22; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated). In Canada the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell costs $2,241 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $870 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $1,371 cheaper.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell | Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR7 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 17.03 TFLOPS | 103 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 70 W | 160 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B | 19tok/sQ4_K_M | offload |
| Gemma 4 12B | 15tok/sQ6_K | 14tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 20tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 15tok/sQ8_0 | 15tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 15tok/sUD-Q6_K | 15tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 83tok/sQ8_0 | 82tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 73tok/sQ8_0 | 72tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 58tok/sQ5_K_M | 57tok/sQ5_K_M |
| LFM3 1.7B | 52tok/sQ8_0 | 51tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 31tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 23tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ6_K |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 23tok/smlx-4bit | 22tok/smlx-4bit |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 22tok/sQ8_0 | 21tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 20tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | 18tok/sQ4_K_M | 18tok/sQ4_K_M |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 16tok/sQ4_K_M | 15tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 13tok/smlx-5bit | 13tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 13tok/sQ6_K | 13tok/sQ6_K |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 12tok/sQ8_0 | 12tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 12tok/sQ8_0 | 12tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | offload |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi Dev 72B | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won't run |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 23 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 22; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds gpt-oss 20B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
- What is the price difference between the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- In Canada the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell costs $2,241 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $870 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $1,371 cheaper.
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