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AMD Radeon PRO W7900 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 64k context the first runs 63 models fully in memory, the second 63.

In short

Both have 48 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 has 864 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB 1,344 GB/s. At 64k context both run the same 63 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB is about 1.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 (estimated, median across models).

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

AMD Radeon PRO W7900

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NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon PRO W7900NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB
GPURadeon PRO W7900RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB
Memory48 GB GDDR648 GB GDDR7
Memory bus384-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth864 GB/s1,344 GB/s
FP16 compute122.6 TFLOPS73.69 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power295 W300 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon PRO W7900NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB
Qwen 3.8 27B14tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B56tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL98tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL
Qwen 3.6 27B14tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 31B12tok/sQ8_022tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 4 119B73tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL129tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B64tok/sQ8_0112tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 27B14tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B-A4B50tok/sQ8_088tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B64tok/sQ8_0112tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.7 Flash32tok/sQ8_057tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2 24B13tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B76tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL132tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B94tok/sQ6_K164tok/sQ6_K
gpt-oss 20B71tok/sMXFP4124tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B30tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 32B11tok/sQ6_K19tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 12B34tok/sQ8_059tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B41tok/sQ8_071tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B14tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B13tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B11tok/sQ6_K19tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B19tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B18tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B26tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B26tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B16tok/sQ8_029tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B71tok/sQ8_0125tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B26tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B24tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B47tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B67tok/sQ8_0117tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B31tok/sQ6_K55tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B356tok/sQ8_0624tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B291tok/sQ8_0509tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B210tok/sQ5_K_M369tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B126tok/sQ8_0221tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B86tok/sQ8_0152tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B86tok/smlx-4bit151tok/smlx-4bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking78tok/sQ8_0137tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260970tok/sQ8_0122tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B69tok/sQ8_0121tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B69tok/sQ8_0121tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250655tok/sQ8_097tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B54tok/smlx-8bit94tok/smlx-8bit
granite vision 4.1 4b53tok/sQ8_093tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b51tok/sQ8_090tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251245tok/sQ8_078tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041444tok/smlx-5bit76tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B40tok/sQ8_070tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 24B A2B38tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash38tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking33tok/smlx-8bit58tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B28tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251226tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251219tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED19tok/smlx-4bit33tok/smlx-4bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B17tok/sQ8_029tok/sQ8_0
Muse Glimmer 30B14tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 250713tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250613tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250713tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250913tok/sQ8_023tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 30b10tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 120Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airoffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.3 70Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5Voffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Boffloadoffload
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
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won'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 4.6won'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 AMD Radeon PRO W7900 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB for speed.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB?
At 64k context both run the same 63 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB is about 1.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 (estimated, median across models).

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