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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 32k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 18.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 12 GB. At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 18 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (estimated, median across models). In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs 798 € at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is 57 € cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

798 €

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

855 €

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 5070Radeon RX 7900 XT
Memory12 GB GDDR720 GB GDDR6
Memory bus192-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute62 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power250 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload24tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload75tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload82tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B39tok/sQ6_K33tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B39tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14Boffload27tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14Boffload25tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B74tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M32tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B38tok/sQ4_K_M30tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B45tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B94tok/sQ8_099tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B38tok/sQ6_K40tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 18 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs 798 € at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is 57 € cheaper.

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