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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 128k context the first runs 24 models fully in memory, the second 9.

In short

The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 has more memory for models: 32 GB against 24 GB. At 128k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 24 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 9; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is about 1.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models). In Germany the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs 1.867 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 2.500 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is 633 € cheaper.

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

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

1.867 €

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

2.500 €

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPURadeon AI PRO R9700GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Memory32 GB GDDR624 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus256-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth640 GB/s1,008 GB/s
FP16 compute191 TFLOPS80 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power300 W450 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Qwen 3.8 27B12tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 27B11tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 31B12tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B43tok/sUD-Q5_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.5 27B11tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B30tok/sQ8_068tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B41tok/sQ6_Koffload
GLM 4.7 Flash19tok/sQ6_Koffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B72tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B37tok/sMXFP466tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B14tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Gemma 4 12B23tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B25tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B12tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
Qwen3 14B12tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Ministral 3 14B11tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 4B40tok/sQ8_071tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B13tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ4_K_M
Granite 4.2 8B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Gemma 4 E4B29tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B28tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B15tok/sQ6_K27tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadwon't run
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadwon't run
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadwon't run
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti?
Choose the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti?
At 128k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 24 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 9; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is about 1.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti?
In Germany the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs 1.867 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 2.500 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is 633 € cheaper.

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