AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB vs AMD RX 6600 for local LLMs
1 report on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB and 0 on the AMD RX 6600
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 2.0x higher on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB (448 GB/s on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB, 224 on the AMD RX 6600). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 19.5 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
AMD RX 6600
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 17.9 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
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 | AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB | AMD RX 6600 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.5 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM | 13.8 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU | 1.5 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 8.8 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB · AMD RX 6600
Every report on each card, with its source: AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB · AMD RX 6600