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Arc B580 12GB vs RX 7900 XTX 24GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7900 XTX 24GB has about 111% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 456 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 111% faster on the RX 7900 XTX 24GB. The RX 7900 XTX 24GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 33 vs 18 of 61 models (24 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 7900 XTX 24GB but not the Arc B580 12GB: GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B). MSRP is $249 for the Arc B580 12GB vs $999 for the RX 7900 XTX 24GB. 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 RX 7900 XTX 24GB posts the higher tok/s in 34 rows vs 6. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Arc B580 12GBRX 7900 XTX 24GB
VendorIntelAMD
VRAM12 GB24 GB
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory bandwidth456 GB/s960 GB/s
TDP190 W355 W
MSRP (list)$249$999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 40 shared models

ModelParams (B)Arc B580 12GB tok/sArc B580 12GB fitsRX 7900 XTX 24GB tok/sRX 7900 XTX 24GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8362.7 est.Yes763.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0290.2 est.Yes610.9 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2241.8 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0145.1 est.Yes305.5 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5117.8 est.No203.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5117.8 est.No203.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2113.1 est.No203.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5117.8 est.No203.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.247.4 measuredYes190.9 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5180.6 est.No169.7 est.YesArc B580 12GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.719.3 est.No162.3 est.NoRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.876.4 est.Yes160.8 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.876.4 est.Yes160.8 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.374.4 est.Yes156.6 est.YesRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.318.5 est.No156.2 est.NoRX 7900 XTX 24GB

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

Arc B580 12GBRX 7900 XTX 24GB
Catalog models that fit18 of 6133 of 61
Largest exclusive fitGLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B)

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