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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 5.

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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 5 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $770 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $520 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $250 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

$770

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

$520

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s320 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W160 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
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 9060 XT 16GB
Gemma 4 12B15tok/sQ6_K14tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B13tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B20tok/sQ8_020tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B15tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B15tok/sUD-Q6_K15tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 20Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 8Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.1 8Boffloadoffload
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
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon'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
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon'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 9060 XT 16GB?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
At 128k context both run the same 5 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $770 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $520 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $250 cheaper.

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