Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?

Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 21 models fully in memory, the second 21.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB has 320 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 640 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 21 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models). In Canada the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB costs $968 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT $1,200 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $232 cheaper.

Updated October 22, 2026. Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

$968

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

$1,200

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Specifications

Spec	AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB	AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU	Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB	Radeon RX 9070 XT
Memory	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus	128-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s	640 GB/s
FP16 compute	103 TFLOPS	195 TFLOPS
Software	ROCm	ROCm
Board power	160 W	304 W
PCIe generation	Gen 5	Gen 5
PCIe lanes	x16	x16

What each runs

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

Model	AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB	AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Gemma 4 12B	14tok/sQ6_K	29tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B	13tok/sQ8_0	25tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B	20tok/sQ8_0	40tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B	15tok/sQ8_0	29tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B	15tok/sUD-Q6_K	29tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B	82tok/sQ8_0	164tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B	72tok/sQ8_0	144tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B	57tok/sQ5_K_M	115tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	31tok/sQ8_0	62tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking	25tok/sQ6_K	49tok/sQ6_K
Spark X2.5 4B	22tok/smlx-4bit	44tok/smlx-4bit
MiniCPM5 2B	21tok/sQ8_0	42tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 2609	20tok/sQ8_0	39tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506	18tok/sQ4_K_M	35tok/sQ4_K_M
LFM2.5 2.6B	16tok/sQ8_0	32tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B	16tok/sQ8_0	32tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash	15tok/sQ4_K_M	31tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4 9B 0414	13tok/smlx-5bit	26tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B	13tok/sQ6_K	26tok/sQ6_K
granite vision 4.1 4b	12tok/sQ8_0	25tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b	12tok/sQ8_0	24tok/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
gpt-oss 20B	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
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking	offload	offload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B	offload	offload
LFM2.5 24B A2B	offload	offload
Ministral 3 8B 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 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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?: Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?: At 128k context both run the same 21 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?: On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?: In Canada the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB costs $968 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT $1,200 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $232 cheaper.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

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