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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 64k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 22.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Qwen 3.8 27B. 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
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload25tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload25tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload97tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload25tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload66tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload98tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload48tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20B27tok/sMXFP478tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B15tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload24tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14Boffload23tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M29tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M29tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload24tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B27tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B12tok/sQ5_K_M29tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload26tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B18tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B25tok/sQ8_074tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B12tok/sQ6_K35tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon'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 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
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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