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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 64k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 13.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 13 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 2.5× 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 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $800 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is $30 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

$770

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

$800

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 7900 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR620 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload63tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
gpt-oss 20B27tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B15tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B27tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B12tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 E4B18tok/sQ8_044tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B25tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B12tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 13 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is about 2.5× 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 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $770 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $800 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is $30 cheaper.

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