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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 32k context the first runs 36 models fully in memory, the second 35.

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 9070 640 GB/s. At 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 35; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is about 2.0× 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 $780 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 $754 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is $26 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

$780

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AMD Radeon RX 9070

$754

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBAMD Radeon RX 9070
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRadeon RX 9070
Memory16 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s640 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS36.1 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power165 W220 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 9070
gpt-oss 20B33tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B17tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B12tok/sQ4_K_M25tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B12tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B32tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B13tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B12tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B20tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B40tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B16tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B191tok/sQ8_0377tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B145tok/sQ8_0285tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B96tok/sQ5_K_M190tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B63tok/sQ8_0124tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B44tok/sQ8_086tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B42tok/smlx-4bit82tok/smlx-4bit
LFM2.5 2.6B37tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B37tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250636tok/sQ4_K_M72tok/sQ4_K_M
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking34tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260931tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B30tok/smlx-6bit60tok/smlx-6bit
granite vision 4.1 4b28tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b27tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251225tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041419tok/smlx-5bit37tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B18tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash16tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B14tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking14tok/smlx-8bit27tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251213tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251212tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B12tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
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
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
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
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 R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon'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 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won'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 Dev 72Bwon'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 AMD Radeon RX 9070?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
At 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs 36 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 35; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the AMD Radeon RX 9070?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is about 2.0× 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 9070?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $780 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 $754 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 is $26 cheaper.

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