Arc Pro B70 32GB vs RTX 4090D 24GB (China) for Local LLMs
The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) has about 66% more memory bandwidth (1,008 vs 608 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 66% faster on the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). The Arc Pro B70 32GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 39 vs 35 of 69 models (32 vs 24 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Arc Pro B70 32GB but not the RTX 4090D 24GB (China): Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (32.8B). MSRP is $999 for the Arc Pro B70 32GB vs $1,599 for the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: RTX 4090D 24GB (China) (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (51 shared models), the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 12. Methodology.