NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 8k context the first runs 31 models fully in memory, the second 48.
In short
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 12 GB. At 8k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 48 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 31; 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 1.4× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models). In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs 950 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is 95 € cheaper.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4070 Super | Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR6X | 20 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 320-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 504 GB/s | 800 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 71 TFLOPS | 103 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 220 W | 315 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | 24tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 78tok/sQ5_K_M |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | 76tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | 100tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | 100tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 12B | 31tok/sQ6_K | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 45tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen3 14B | 30tok/sQ4_K_M | 26tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | 29tok/sQ5_K_M | 28tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | 30tok/sQ4_K_M | 26tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 65tok/sQ8_0 | 92tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 31tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 29tok/sQ8_0 | 41tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 37tok/sQ8_0 | 52tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 128tok/sQ8_0 | 180tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 41tok/sQ6_K | 57tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 495tok/sQ8_0 | 697tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 336tok/sQ8_0 | 472tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 201tok/sQ5_K_M | 283tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 147tok/sQ8_0 | 207tok/sQ8_0 |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 103tok/sQ8_0 | 145tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 93tok/sQ8_0 | 130tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 93tok/sQ8_0 | 130tok/sQ8_0 |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 92tok/smlx-4bit | 130tok/smlx-4bit |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | 86tok/sQ4_K_M | 79tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 85tok/sQ5_K_M | 94tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 73tok/sQ8_0 | 103tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 69tok/sQ8_0 | 96tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 37tok/sQ8_0 | 51tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 36tok/smlx-5bit | 51tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | 33tok/sQ8_0 | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | 31tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 30tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | 30tok/sQ4_K_M | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | 75tok/smlx-8bit |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | 119tok/sQ5_K_M |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | 36tok/smlx-8bit |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | offload |
| granite 4.2 30b | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | 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 |
| 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 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | 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 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 4.5V | 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 5.1 | 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 |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 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 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to spend less.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
- At 8k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 48 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 31; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 1.4× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models).
- What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
- In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs 950 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is 95 € cheaper.
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