NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs AMD RX 7900 XTX for local LLMs
72 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 47 on the AMD RX 7900 XTX
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Gemma 4 26B · 4B active at 4-bit, the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 95.2 generation tokens/s (one run); prompt processing 3476.0 tokens/s (one run); the AMD RX 7900 XTX has 142.8 generation tokens/s (one run); prompt processing 4331.2 tokens/s (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 2.1x higher on the AMD RX 7900 XTX (448 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 960 on the AMD RX 7900 XTX).
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 95 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 72
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 960 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 123 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 47
Measured on both
Generation and prompt processing speeds 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 bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | AMD RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active4-bit | 95.2one runPP 3476.0 (one run)llama.cpp64K context | 142.8one runPP 4331.2 (one run)llama.cppcontext not stated |
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.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | AMD RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 65.1 t/sQ3_K_S | 78.4 t/sQ5_K_S |
| Qwen3.8 27B | 29.2 t/sQ2_K | 34.8 t/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 19.5 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 96.6 t/sQ2_K | 123.2 t/sQ4_K_S |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 29.2 t/sQ2_K | 34.8 t/sQ4_K_M |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
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Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · AMD RX 7900 XTX