AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 32k context the first runs 29 models fully in memory, the second 13.

In short

The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 has more memory for models: 32 GB against 16 GB. At 32k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 29 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 13; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.3× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs £1,674 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super £1,429 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is £245 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
GPURadeon AI PRO R9700GeForce RTX 4080 Super
Memory32 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth640 GB/s736 GB/s
FP16 compute191 TFLOPS104 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power300 W320 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
Qwen 3.8 27B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.6 27B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Gemma 4 31B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B66tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.5 27B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B42tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B67tok/sQ6_Koffload
GLM 4.7 Flash36tok/sQ6_Koffload
Devstral Small 2 24B12tok/sQ8_0offload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B99tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B65tok/sMXFP485tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B37tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen3 32B11tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
Gemma 4 12B26tok/sQ8_034tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B33tok/sQ8_043tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B12tok/sQ8_0offload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B11tok/sQ5_K_Moffload
Gemma 3 27B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Ministral 3 14B18tok/sQ8_030tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen3 14B17tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B26tok/sQ8_034tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B26tok/sQ8_034tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B16tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 4B63tok/sQ8_081tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B26tok/sQ8_034tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B24tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B38tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B79tok/sQ8_0102tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B32tok/sQ6_K42tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airoffloadwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.3 70Boffloadwon't run
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
Choose the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
At 32k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 29 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 13; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 1.3× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super?
In the UK the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs £1,674 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super £1,429 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is £245 cheaper.

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