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AMD RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA V100 32GB for local LLMs

46 reports on the AMD RX 7900 XTX and 27 on the NVIDIA V100 32GB

Which is faster for local LLMs?

On Qwen3.8 27B at 4-bit, the AMD RX 7900 XTX has 42.5 generation tokens/s (6 runs); prompt processing 640.0 tokens/s (4 runs); the NVIDIA V100 32GB has 31.4 generation tokens/s (2 runs); prompt processing 940.5 tokens/s (2 runs). 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 7% higher on the AMD RX 7900 XTX (960 GB/s on the AMD RX 7900 XTX, 900 on the NVIDIA V100 32GB).

AMD RX 7900 XTX
Memory
24GB
Memory bandwidth
960 GB/s
FP16 compute
123 TFLOPS
Reports
46
NVIDIA V100 32GB
Memory
32GB
Memory bandwidth
900 GB/s
FP16 compute
125 TFLOPS
Reports
27

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

ModelAMD RX 7900 XTXNVIDIA V100 32GB
Qwen3.8 27B4-bit42.56 runsPP 640.0 (4 runs)llama.cpp, Ollama, 2 not stated64K to 220K context, 3 not stated31.42 runsPP 940.5 (2 runs)llama.cpp, 1 not stated32K to 128K context

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.

ModelAMD RX 7900 XTXNVIDIA V100 32GB
Qwen3.8 27B34.8 t/sQ4_K_M22.6 t/sQ6_K
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active19.5 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active123.2 t/sQ4_K_S81.9 t/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 27B34.8 t/sQ4_K_M22.6 t/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active78.4 t/sQ5_K_S57.5 t/sQ6_K
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings

Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD RX 7900 XTX · NVIDIA V100 32GB

Every report on each card, with its source: AMD RX 7900 XTX · NVIDIA V100 32GB

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