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RTX A6000 48GB vs RX 7900 XT 20GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7900 XT 20GB has about 4% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 768 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 4% faster on the RX 7900 XT 20GB. The RTX A6000 48GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 39 vs 32 of 61 models (48 vs 20 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX A6000 48GB but not the RX 7900 XT 20GB: Qwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B). MSRP is $4,500 for the RTX A6000 48GB vs $899 for the RX 7900 XT 20GB. 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 (46 shared models), the RX 7900 XT 20GB posts the higher tok/s in 37 rows vs 9. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX A6000 48GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM48 GB20 GB
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory bandwidth768 GB/s800 GB/s
TDP300 W315 W
MSRP (list)$4,500$899
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 46 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX A6000 48GB tok/sRTX A6000 48GB fitsRX 7900 XT 20GB tok/sRX 7900 XT 20GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8610.9 est.Yes636.4 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0488.7 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3499.8 est.No90.4 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2407.3 est.Yes424.2 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0244.4 est.Yes254.5 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5162.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5162.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2162.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5162.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7162.9 est.Yes93.9 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2152.7 est.Yes131.2 measuredYesRTX A6000 48GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5135.8 est.Yes141.4 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gpt-oss-120b120.4135.5 est.No24.5 est.NoRTX A6000 48GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8128.6 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8128.6 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB

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 7900 XT 20GB
Catalog models that fit39 of 6132 of 61
Largest exclusive fitQwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B)

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