AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
For running models locally, priced in India. At 8k context the first runs 14 models fully in memory, the second 14.
In short
Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 14 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon RX 7600 XT | 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 | 45 TFLOPS | 103 TFLOPS |
| Software | ROCm | ROCm |
| Board power | 190 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 | AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B | 36tok/sMXFP4 | 40tok/sMXFP4 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 12tok/sQ8_0 | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | 13tok/sQ6_K | 14tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3 14B | 12tok/sQ6_K | 13tok/sQ6_K |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | 12tok/sQ6_K | 13tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 33tok/sQ8_0 | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 17tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 15tok/sQ8_0 | 17tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 19tok/sQ8_0 | 21tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 65tok/sQ8_0 | 72tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 21tok/sQ6_K | 23tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | 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 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 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 |
| 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 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB for speed.
- Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- At 8k context both run the same 14 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is about 1.1× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).