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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 18 models fully in memory, the second 17.

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 9070 XT 640 GB/s. At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 18 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 17; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £650 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT £739 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is £89 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

£650

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

£739

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 9070 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s640 GB/s
FP16 compute47 TFLOPS195 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power180 W304 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 9070 XT
gpt-oss 20B30tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Gemma 4 12B23tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B20tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B32tok/sQ8_040tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B23tok/sQ8_029tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B23tok/sUD-Q6_K29tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B130tok/sQ8_0164tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B114tok/sQ8_0144tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B91tok/sQ5_K_M115tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B49tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking36tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ6_K
MiniCPM5 2B33tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B25tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B25tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash24tok/sQ4_K_M31tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B20tok/sQ6_K26tok/sQ6_K
granite vision 4.1 4b19tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b19tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
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
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
Llama 3.1 8Boffloadoffload
Kimi VL A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512offloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
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
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon'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
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run
granite 4.2 30bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 18 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 17; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds gpt-oss 20B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £650 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT £739 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is £89 cheaper.

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