AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

For running models locally, priced in India. At 64k context the first runs 22 models fully in memory, the second 27.

Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GPURadeon RX 7900 XTXGeForce RTX 5090
Memory24 GB GDDR632 GB GDDR7
Memory bus384-bit512-bit
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s1,792 GB/s
FP16 compute123 TFLOPS209 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power355 W575 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 7900 XTXNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Qwen 3.8 27B25tok/sUD-Q4_K_M42tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.6 27B25tok/sQ4_K_M41tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 31Boffload35tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B97tok/sUD-Q4_K_M173tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.5 27B25tok/sQ4_K_M41tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 26B-A4B66tok/sUD-Q5_K_M117tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B98tok/sQ4_K_M175tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.7 Flash48tok/sQ4_K_M87tok/sQ6_K
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload37tok/sQ6_K
gpt-oss 20B78tok/sMXFP4165tok/sMXFP4
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffload277tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload75tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 12B38tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B45tok/sQ8_095tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B24tok/sQ4_K_M40tok/sQ6_K
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload37tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B24tok/sQ6_K44tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B23tok/sQ6_K42tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B29tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B29tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B24tok/sQ4_K_M38tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B79tok/sQ8_0166tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B29tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B26tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B52tok/sQ8_0110tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B74tok/sQ8_0156tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B35tok/sQ6_K73tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run