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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 8k context the first runs 35 models fully in memory, the second 35.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT has 624 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 35 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models). In Germany the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT costs 1.226 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 620 € at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is 606 € cheaper.

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

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

1.226 €

Amazon

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

620 €

eBay

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon RX 7800 XTAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPURadeon RX 7800 XTRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth624 GB/s320 GB/s
FP16 compute74 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmROCm
Board power263 W160 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 RX 7800 XTAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
gpt-oss 20B78tok/sMXFP440tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B26tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B35tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B28tok/sQ6_K14tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14B26tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B35tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B35tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B25tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B72tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B34tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B32tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B41tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B140tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B45tok/sQ6_K23tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B543tok/sQ8_0279tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B369tok/sQ8_0189tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B221tok/sQ5_K_M113tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B161tok/sQ8_083tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B113tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B102tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B102tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B101tok/smlx-4bit52tok/smlx-4bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250694tok/sQ4_K_M48tok/sQ4_K_M
granite vision 4.1 4b80tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b75tok/sQ8_039tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B74tok/smlx-6bit38tok/smlx-6bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking73tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260970tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B40tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041440tok/smlx-5bit21tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B36tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251234tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash33tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking28tok/smlx-8bit15tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B25tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
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
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon'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 4.5Vwon'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 RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
At 8k context both run the same 35 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
In Germany the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT costs 1.226 € at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 620 € at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is 606 € cheaper.

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