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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada vs NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for local LLMs

0 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada and 57 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

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 24% higher on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (360 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada, 448 on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada
Memory
20GB
Memory bandwidth
360 GB/s
FP16 compute
106.9 TFLOPS
Reports
0
NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Memory
16GB
Memory bandwidth
448 GB/s
FP16 compute
95 TFLOPS
Reports
57

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.

ModelNVIDIA RTX 4000 AdaNVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.8 27B16.8 t/sQ3_K_M29.2 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active17.0 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAMdoesn't fit at these settings
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active66.6 t/sQ3_K_S96.6 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 27B16.8 t/sQ3_K_M29.2 t/sQ2_K
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active37.7 t/sQ4_K_S65.1 t/sQ3_K_S

Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada · NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada · NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

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