AMD RX 6700 XT vs AMD RX 7600 8GB for local LLMs
5 reports on the AMD RX 6700 XT and 1 on the AMD RX 7600 8GB
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 33% higher on the AMD RX 6700 XT (384 GB/s on the AMD RX 6700 XT, 288 on the AMD RX 7600 8GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
AMD RX 6700 XT
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 384 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 26.4 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 5
AMD RX 7600 8GB
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 43 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
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 6700 XT | AMD RX 7600 8GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.6 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 13.3 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 14.7 t/sQ5_K_M, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.6 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 1.6 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 62.7 t/sQ2_K | 9.4 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
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Every report on each card, with its source: AMD RX 6700 XT · AMD RX 7600 8GB