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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 6.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 16 GB. At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 6 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 2.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models). In Germany the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT costs 813 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is 41 € cheaper.

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

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

813 €

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

855 €

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon RX 7600 XTAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPURadeon RX 7600 XTRadeon RX 7900 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR620 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute45 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmROCm
Board power190 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon RX 7600 XTAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
gpt-oss 20Boffload47tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B11tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B18tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B13tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B13tok/sUD-Q6_K35tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
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
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.1 8Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 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 7600 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 6 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds gpt-oss 20B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 2.8× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In Germany the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT costs 813 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 855 € at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is 41 € cheaper.

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