NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 64k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 26.
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 64k context both run the same 26 models we track fully in memory. 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.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | Radeon RX 9070 XT |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR7 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 640 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 47 TFLOPS | 195 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 180 W | 304 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B | 41tok/sMXFP4 | 52tok/sMXFP4 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 24tok/sQ8_0 | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 19tok/sQ4_K_M | 24tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen3 8B | 19tok/sQ4_K_M | 24tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 42tok/sQ8_0 | 53tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 18tok/sQ5_K_M | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 28tok/sQ8_0 | 35tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 39tok/sQ8_0 | 49tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 18tok/sQ6_K | 25tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 208tok/sQ8_0 | 263tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 170tok/sQ8_0 | 215tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 123tok/sQ5_K_M | 156tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 74tok/sQ8_0 | 93tok/sQ8_0 |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 51tok/sQ8_0 | 64tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 46tok/sQ8_0 | 58tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 51tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 51tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B | 40tok/smlx-5bit | 50tok/smlx-5bit |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 31tok/sQ8_0 | 39tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 30tok/sQ8_0 | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 23tok/sQ8_0 | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 22tok/sQ8_0 | 28tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | 19tok/smlx-8bit | 24tok/smlx-8bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | 18tok/sQ6_K | 25tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | 18tok/sQ5_K_M | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| granite 4.2 30b | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won'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 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 64k context both run the same 26 models we track fully in memory.
- 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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