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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

For running models locally, priced in India. At 8k context the first runs 16 models fully in memory, the second 14.

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 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs 16 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 14; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s320 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W160 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Devstral Small 2 24B11tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B41tok/sMXFP440tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B14tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B18tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B11tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Qwen3 14B13tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B11tok/sQ8_014tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B18tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B18tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B13tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B37tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B18tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B17tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B21tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B73tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B23tok/sQ6_K23tok/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
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
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 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs 16 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 14; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B.
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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