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RTX A6000 48GB vs RX 7700 XT 12GB for Local LLMs

The RTX A6000 48GB has about 78% more memory bandwidth (768 vs 432 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 78% faster on the RTX A6000 48GB. The RTX A6000 48GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 39 vs 18 of 61 models (48 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX A6000 48GB but not the RX 7700 XT 12GB: Qwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B). MSRP is $4,500 for the RTX A6000 48GB vs $449 for the RX 7700 XT 12GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (40 shared models), the RTX A6000 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 33 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX A6000 48GBRX 7700 XT 12GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM48 GB12 GB
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory bandwidth768 GB/s432 GB/s
TDP300 W245 W
MSRP (list)$4,500$449
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 40 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX A6000 48GB tok/sRTX A6000 48GB fitsRX 7700 XT 12GB tok/sRX 7700 XT 12GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8610.9 est.Yes343.6 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3499.8 est.No17.6 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0488.7 est.Yes274.9 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2407.3 est.Yes229.1 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0244.4 est.Yes137.5 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5135.8 est.Yes171.1 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5162.9 est.Yes111.6 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5162.9 est.Yes111.6 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2162.9 est.Yes107.1 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5162.9 est.Yes111.6 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7162.9 est.Yes18.3 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2152.7 est.Yes85.9 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8128.6 est.Yes72.3 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8128.6 est.Yes72.3 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3125.3 est.Yes70.5 est.YesRTX A6000 48GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

RTX A6000 48GBRX 7700 XT 12GB
Catalog models that fit39 of 6118 of 61
Largest exclusive fitQwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B)

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