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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 8.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 8 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about 3.0× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs £977 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is £22 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

£977

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

£999

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 7900 XTX
Memory16 GB GDDR624 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s960 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS123 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W355 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
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 7900 XTX
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload57tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload56tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B15tok/sQ6_K35tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B13tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B20tok/sQ8_060tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B15tok/sQ8_044tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B15tok/sUD-Q6_K42tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload23tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
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
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8Boffloadoffload
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
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
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon'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 7900 XTX?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 8 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about 3.0× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs £977 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is £22 cheaper.

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