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NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 32k context the first runs 37 models fully in memory, the second 36.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 320 GB/s. At 32k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 37 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 36; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated). In the US the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell costs $1,580 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $660 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $920 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

$1,580

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

$660

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 BlackwellAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
GPURTX PRO 2000 BlackwellRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Memory16 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR6
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth288 GB/s320 GB/s
FP16 compute17.03 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power70 W160 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 BlackwellAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
gpt-oss 20B33tok/sMXFP433tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B17tok/sQ8_017tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B12tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B12tok/sQ5_K_M12tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B13tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B32tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B13tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B12tok/sQ8_012tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B20tok/sQ8_019tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B40tok/sQ8_040tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B16tok/sQ6_K16tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B191tok/sQ8_0189tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B145tok/sQ8_0143tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B96tok/sQ5_K_M95tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B79tok/sQ8_078tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B63tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B44tok/sQ8_043tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B42tok/smlx-4bit41tok/smlx-4bit
LFM2.5 2.6B37tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B37tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250636tok/sQ4_K_M36tok/sQ4_K_M
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking34tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260931tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B30tok/smlx-6bit30tok/smlx-6bit
granite vision 4.1 4b28tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b27tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251225tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041419tok/smlx-5bit18tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B18tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash16tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B14tok/sQ8_014tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking14tok/smlx-8bit13tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251213tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251212tok/sQ5_K_M12tok/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 RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
At 32k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 37 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 36; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell or the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB?
In the US the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell costs $1,580 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB $660 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is $920 cheaper.

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