NVIDIA RTX 3090 vs AMD RX 7900 XT for local LLMs
219 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 and 12 on the AMD RX 7900 XT
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 17% higher on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 (936 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3090, 800 on the AMD RX 7900 XT). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA RTX 3090
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 142 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 219
AMD RX 7900 XT
- Memory
- 20GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 800 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 103 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 12
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.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | AMD RX 7900 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 37.2 t/sQ3_K_M |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | 19.2 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 120.1 t/sQ4_K_S | 147.9 t/sQ3_K_S |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 37.2 t/sQ3_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 76.4 t/sQ5_K_S | 83.9 t/sQ4_K_S |
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