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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 8k context the first runs 16 models fully in memory, the second 28.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 8k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 28 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16; 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 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs £950 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is £49 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

£950

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

£999

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperRadeon RX 7900 XTX
Memory16 GB GDDR6X24 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth672 GB/s960 GB/s
FP16 compute88 TFLOPS123 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power285 W355 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload23tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload23tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 31Boffload23tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload153tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload23tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload80tok/sUD-Q6_K
Devstral Small 2 24B27tok/sQ4_K_M26tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload153tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload79tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20B95tok/sMXFP4120tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload108tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen3 32Boffload24tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 12B32tok/sQ8_040tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B42tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B27tok/sQ4_K_M26tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 3 27Boffload23tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffload24tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B31tok/sQ6_K31tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B27tok/sQ8_034tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B42tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B42tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B30tok/sQ6_K31tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B87tok/sQ8_0110tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B41tok/sQ8_052tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B39tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B49tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B170tok/sQ8_0216tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B54tok/sQ6_K69tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runoffload
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 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 4070 Ti Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
At 8k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 28 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super costs £950 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super is £49 cheaper.

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