Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?

Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

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

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT has 624 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 17 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the UK the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT costs £568 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB £499 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is £69 cheaper.

Updated 15 October 2026. Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

£568

Amazon

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

£499

eBay

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Specifications

Spec	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPU	Radeon RX 7800 XT	Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus	256-bit	128-bit
Memory bandwidth	624 GB/s	320 GB/s
FP16 compute	74 TFLOPS	103 TFLOPS
Software	ROCm	ROCm
Board power	263 W	160 W
PCIe generation	Gen 4	Gen 5
PCIe lanes	x16	x16

What each runs

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

Model	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Gemma 4 12B	28tok/sQ6_K	14tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B	25tok/sQ8_0	13tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B	39tok/sQ8_0	20tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B	29tok/sQ8_0	15tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B	28tok/sUD-Q6_K	15tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B	160tok/sQ8_0	82tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B	141tok/sQ8_0	72tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B	112tok/sQ5_K_M	57tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	61tok/sQ8_0	31tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking	48tok/sQ6_K	25tok/sQ6_K
MiniCPM5 2B	41tok/sQ8_0	21tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B	31tok/sQ8_0	16tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B	31tok/sQ8_0	16tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash	30tok/sQ4_K_M	15tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B	25tok/sQ6_K	13tok/sQ6_K
granite vision 4.1 4b	24tok/sQ8_0	12tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b	24tok/sQ8_0	12tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 27B	offload	offload
Qwen 3.6 27B	offload	offload
Gemma 4 31B	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
gpt-oss 20B	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
Llama 3.1 8B	offload	offload
Kimi VL A3B	offload	offload
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking	offload	offload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B	offload	offload
LFM2.5 24B A2B	offload	offload
Ministral 3 8B 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
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
Mistral Small 4 119B	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 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
granite 4.2 30b	won't run	won't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?: Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?: At 128k context both run the same 17 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?: On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.0× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?: In the UK the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT costs £568 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB £499 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is £69 cheaper.

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

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