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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded) for local LLMs

43 reports on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB and 7 on the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)

Which is faster for local LLMs?

On Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active at 4-bit, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB runs at 61.4 tokens per second (one run) and the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded) at 69.0 (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 about the same on both (640 GB/s on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, 616 on the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)).

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
Memory
32GB
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
FP16 compute
191 TFLOPS
Reports
43
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)
Memory
22GB
Memory bandwidth
616 GB/s
FP16 compute
108 TFLOPS
Reports
7

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 AI PRO R9700 32GBNVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active4-bit61.4one run69.0one 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 AI PRO R9700 32GBNVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active58.2 t/sQ5_K_M93.6 t/sQ3_K_M
Qwen3.8 27B16.0 t/sQ6_K25.1 t/sQ4_K_S
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active18.7 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM18.6 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 27B16.0 t/sQ6_K25.1 t/sQ4_K_S
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active40.9 t/sQ6_K56.6 t/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings

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Every report on each card, with its source: AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB · NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded)

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