NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
For running models locally, priced in India. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 5.
In short
Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 5 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 320 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 44 TFLOPS | 103 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 165 W | 160 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | 15tok/sQ6_K | 14tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 20tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 15tok/sQ8_0 | 15tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 15tok/sUD-Q6_K | 15tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Questions
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- At 128k context both run the same 5 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
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