NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 32k context the first runs 24 models fully in memory, the second 50.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has more memory for models: 24 GB against 12 GB. At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 50 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 24; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about 1.7× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs $799 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX $1,020 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super is $221 cheaper.

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

Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPUGeForce RTX 4070 SuperRadeon RX 7900 XTX
Memory12 GB GDDR6X24 GB GDDR6
Memory bus192-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth504 GB/s960 GB/s
FP16 compute71 TFLOPS123 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power220 W355 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload23tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Gemma 4 31Boffload24tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload122tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload72tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload123tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload60tok/sQ5_K_M
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload24tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload98tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload63tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 12B29tok/sQ6_K39tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B29tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload27tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload25tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B29tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B29tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B56tok/sQ8_094tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B29tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B29tok/sQ4_K_M36tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B34tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B70tok/sQ8_0118tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B29tok/sQ6_K49tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B335tok/sQ8_0566tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B253tok/sQ8_0428tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B168tok/sQ5_K_M284tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B110tok/sQ8_0186tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B76tok/sQ8_0129tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B64tok/sQ8_0108tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B64tok/sQ8_0108tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b50tok/sQ8_084tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b48tok/sQ8_080tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash42tok/sQ4_K_M47tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041433tok/smlx-5bit55tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B31tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251229tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B29tok/sQ6_K41tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload77tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload100tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload74tok/smlx-8bit
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffload71tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload40tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload24tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2507offload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Magistral Small 2506offload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Magistral Small 2507offload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Magistral Small 2509offload24tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon'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 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 4.5Vwon'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 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 4070 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
At 32k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX runs 50 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 24; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about 1.7× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super costs $799 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX $1,020 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super is $221 cheaper.

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