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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 6.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 16 GB. At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 6 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT are about as fast as each other (estimated). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super costs $1,199 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $800 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $399 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

$1,199

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

$800

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 4080 SuperRadeon RX 7900 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR6X20 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth736 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute104 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power320 W315 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 4080 SuperAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
gpt-oss 20Boffload47tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B37tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B33tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B52tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B38tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B38tok/sUD-Q6_K35tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
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
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
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
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 4080 Super 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 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 128k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 6 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 5; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds gpt-oss 20B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT are about as fast as each other (estimated).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super costs $1,199 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $800 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $399 cheaper.

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