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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 8k context the first runs 37 models fully in memory, the second 37.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 448 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 37 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $770 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB $771 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is $1 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

$770

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

$771

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s448 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS47 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power165 W180 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Devstral Small 2 24B11tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20B41tok/sMXFP463tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B14tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B18tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B11tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B13tok/sQ6_K21tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B11tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B18tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B18tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B13tok/sQ6_K20tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B37tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B18tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B17tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B21tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B73tok/sQ8_0114tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B23tok/sQ6_K36tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B283tok/sQ8_0440tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B192tok/sQ8_0298tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B115tok/sQ5_K_M179tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B84tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B59tok/sQ8_092tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B53tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B53tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b42tok/sQ8_065tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b39tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B39tok/smlx-6bit60tok/smlx-6bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking38tok/sQ8_059tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B21tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B19tok/sQ8_029tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251218tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash17tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking15tok/smlx-8bit23tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B13tok/sQ6_K20tok/sQ6_K
Devstral Small 250711tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 250611tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 250711tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 250911tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
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
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
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
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
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
At 8k context both run the same 37 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.6× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $770 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB $771 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is $1 cheaper.

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