NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 29.
In short
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has more memory for models: 24 GB against 12 GB. At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 29 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 13; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. 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 5070 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs £750 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at eBay (used): the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is £249 cheaper.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 5070 | Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR7 | 24 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 672 GB/s | 960 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 62 TFLOPS | 123 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 250 W | 355 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 54tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | 56tok/sMXFP4 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 43tok/sQ4_K_M | 35tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 42tok/sQ4_K_M | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 47tok/sQ8_0 | 60tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 45tok/sQ5_K_M | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | offload | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | 23tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 195tok/sQ8_0 | 247tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 171tok/sQ8_0 | 216tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 136tok/sQ5_K_M | 172tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 74tok/sQ8_0 | 93tok/sQ8_0 |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 53tok/smlx-4bit | 67tok/smlx-4bit |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 50tok/sQ8_0 | 64tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 47tok/sQ8_0 | 59tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 41tok/sQ6_K | 48tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 41tok/sQ6_K | 48tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | offload | 69tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | offload | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | offload | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | offload | 39tok/smlx-5bit |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | offload | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | offload | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | offload | 36tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | 43tok/smlx-8bit |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | offload | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | 31tok/smlx-8bit |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | 23tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | 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 |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 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 R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 | 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 V3.1 Terminus | 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 4.5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6 | 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 | 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 Dev 72B | 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 |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 to spend less.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
- At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 29 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 13; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 (estimated, median across models).
- What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
- In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 costs £750 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX £999 at eBay (used): the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is £249 cheaper.
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