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AMD Radeon 780M vs AMD RX 7900 XTX for local LLMs

5 reports on the AMD Radeon 780M and 28 on the AMD RX 7900 XTX

Which is faster for local LLMs?

On Gemma 4 26B · 4B active at 4-bit, the AMD Radeon 780M runs at 25.0 tokens per second (one run) and the AMD RX 7900 XTX at 142.8 (one run). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 8.0x higher on the AMD RX 7900 XTX (120 GB/s on the AMD Radeon 780M, 960 on the AMD RX 7900 XTX).

AMD Radeon 780M
Memory
shared memory unified
Memory bandwidth
not on record
FP16 compute
not on record
Reports
5
AMD RX 7900 XTX
Memory
24GB
Memory bandwidth
960 GB/s
FP16 compute
123 TFLOPS
Reports
28

Measured on both

Median tokens per second from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same quant level. Engines and context lengths can still differ between the runs. How to read these

ModelAMD Radeon 780MAMD RX 7900 XTX
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active4-bit25.0one run142.8one run

Estimated by the calculator

The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.

ModelAMD Radeon 780MAMD RX 7900 XTX
Gemma 4 26B · 4B activenot in the calculator yet78.4 t/sQ5_K_S
Qwen3.8 27Bnot in the calculator yet34.8 t/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B activenot in the calculator yet19.5 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activenot in the calculator yetdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B activenot in the calculator yet123.2 t/sQ4_K_S
Qwen3.6 27Bnot in the calculator yet34.8 t/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B activenot in the calculator yetdoesn't fit at these settings

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