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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

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

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 448 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 64k context both run the same 10 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.6× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £520 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB £499 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is £21 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

£520

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

£499

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPUGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s320 GB/s
FP16 compute47 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power180 W160 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
gpt-oss 20B41tok/sMXFP426tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B20tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B24tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B42tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B18tok/sQ5_K_M12tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B28tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B39tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B18tok/sQ6_K12tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
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 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
At 64k context both run the same 10 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.6× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £520 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB £499 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is £21 cheaper.

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