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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 64k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 10.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT has more memory for models: 16 GB against 12 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT runs 10 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is about 1.5× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB costs £390 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT £348 at eBay (used): the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is £42 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

£390

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

£348

eBay, used (asking)

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBAMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 3060 12GBRadeon RX 7600 XT
Memory12 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus192-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth360 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute25.6 TFLOPS45 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power170 W190 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x8

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBAMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
gpt-oss 20Boffload24tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B23tok/sQ5_K_M11tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B23tok/sQ6_K14tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 8Boffload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B33tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8Boffload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B22tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B33tok/sUD-Q6_K22tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload11tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon'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 3060 12GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT runs 10 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT holds gpt-oss 20B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is about 1.5× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB costs £390 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT £348 at eBay (used): the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is £42 cheaper.

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