Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?

Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT to spend less.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 128k context the first runs 20 models fully in memory, the second 20.

In short

Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT has 288 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 624 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 20 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.2× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models). In the US the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT costs $480 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT $550 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is $70 cheaper.

Updated October 16, 2026. Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

$480

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

$550

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Specifications

Spec	AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
GPU	Radeon RX 7600 XT	Radeon RX 7800 XT
Memory	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus	128-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	624 GB/s
FP16 compute	45 TFLOPS	74 TFLOPS
Software	ROCm	ROCm
Board power	190 W	263 W
PCIe generation	Gen 4	Gen 4
PCIe lanes	x8	x16

What each runs

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

Model	AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Gemma 4 12B	13tok/sQ6_K	28tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 9B	11tok/sQ8_0	25tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B	18tok/sQ8_0	39tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B	13tok/sQ8_0	29tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B	13tok/sUD-Q6_K	28tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B	74tok/sQ8_0	160tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B	65tok/sQ8_0	141tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B	52tok/sQ5_K_M	112tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	28tok/sQ8_0	61tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking	22tok/sQ6_K	48tok/sQ6_K
Spark X2.5 4B	20tok/smlx-4bit	43tok/smlx-4bit
MiniCPM5 2B	19tok/sQ8_0	41tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506	16tok/sQ4_K_M	34tok/sQ4_K_M
LFM2.5 2.6B	15tok/sQ8_0	31tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B	15tok/sQ8_0	31tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash	14tok/sQ4_K_M	30tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4 9B 0414	12tok/smlx-5bit	25tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B	12tok/sQ6_K	25tok/sQ6_K
granite vision 4.1 4b	11tok/sQ8_0	24tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b	11tok/sQ8_0	24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 27B	offload	offload
Qwen 3.6 27B	offload	offload
Gemma 4 31B	offload	offload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B	offload	offload
Qwen 3.5 27B	offload	offload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B	offload	offload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B	offload	offload
GLM 4.7 Flash	offload	offload
Devstral Small 2 24B	offload	offload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B	offload	offload
gpt-oss 20B	offload	offload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B	offload	offload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B	offload	offload
Gemma 3 27B	offload	offload
Mistral Small 3.2 24B	offload	offload
Ministral 3 14B	offload	offload
Qwen3 14B	offload	offload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B	offload	offload
Qwen3 8B	offload	offload
Phi-4 14B	offload	offload
Ministral 3 8B	offload	offload
Granite 4.2 8B	offload	offload
Llama 3.1 8B	offload	offload
Kimi VL A3B	offload	offload
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking	offload	offload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B	offload	offload
LFM2.5 24B A2B	offload	offload
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512	offload	offload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED	offload	offload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B	offload	offload
Devstral Small 2507	offload	offload
Magistral Small 2506	offload	offload
Magistral Small 2507	offload	offload
Magistral Small 2509	offload	offload
DeepSeek V4 Flash	won't run	won't run
GLM 5.3 Flash	won't run	won't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next	won't run	won't run
MiniMax M2.7	won't run	won't run
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B	won't run	won't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B	won't run	won't run
Qwen3 Coder Next	won't run	won't run
gpt-oss 120B	won't run	won't run
Mistral Small 4 119B	won't run	won't run
GLM 4.5 Air	won't run	won't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B	won't run	won't run
Qwen3 32B	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B	won't run	won't run
Llama 3.3 70B	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek R1	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek R1 0528	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek R1 Zero	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V3 0324	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V3.1	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V3.2	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731	won't run	won't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	won't run	won't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512	won't run	won't run
GLM 4.5V	won't run	won't run
GLM 4.6	won't run	won't run
GLM 4.6V	won't run	won't run
GLM 4.7	won't run	won't run
GLM 5.1	won't run	won't run
GLM 5.2	won't run	won't run
GLM 5.3	won't run	won't run
Kimi Dev 72B	won't run	won't run
Kimi K2	won't run	won't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905	won't run	won't run
Kimi K2 Thinking	won't run	won't run
Kimi K2.5	won't run	won't run
MiniMax M2	won't run	won't run
MiniMax M2.1	won't run	won't run
MiniMax M2.5	won't run	won't run
MiniMax M3	won't run	won't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B	won't run	won't run
granite 4.2 30b	won't run	won't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?: Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?: At 128k context both run the same 20 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT or the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?: On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is about 2.2× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?: In the US the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT costs $480 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT $550 at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is $70 cheaper.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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