AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 128k context the first runs 21 models fully in memory, the second 21.
In short
Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has 640 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 640 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 21 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT are about as fast as each other (estimated).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | AMD Radeon RX 9070 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon RX 9070 | Radeon RX 9070 XT |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 640 GB/s | 640 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 36.1 TFLOPS | 195 TFLOPS |
| Software | ROCm | ROCm |
| Board power | 220 W | 304 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | AMD Radeon RX 9070 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | 29tok/sQ6_K | 29tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 25tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 29tok/sQ8_0 | 29tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 29tok/sUD-Q6_K | 29tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 164tok/sQ8_0 | 164tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 144tok/sQ8_0 | 144tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 115tok/sQ5_K_M | 115tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 62tok/sQ8_0 | 62tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 49tok/sQ6_K | 49tok/sQ6_K |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 44tok/smlx-4bit | 44tok/smlx-4bit |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 42tok/sQ8_0 | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 39tok/sQ8_0 | 39tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | 35tok/sQ4_K_M | 35tok/sQ4_K_M |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 32tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 32tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 31tok/sQ4_K_M | 31tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 26tok/smlx-5bit | 26tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 26tok/sQ6_K | 26tok/sQ6_K |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 25tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 24tok/sQ8_0 | 24tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | offload |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | 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 |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | 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 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 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 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 | 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 4.5 | 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 | 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 |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- At 128k context both run the same 21 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT are about as fast as each other (estimated).
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