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Gaudi 3 128GB vs RX 7900 XT 20GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 310% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 800 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 310% faster on the Gaudi 3 128GB. The Gaudi 3 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 47 vs 32 of 61 models (128 vs 20 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Gaudi 3 128GB but not the RX 7900 XT 20GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB 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. Not retail-shoppable: Gaudi 3 128GB (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (46 shared models), the Gaudi 3 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 46 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Gaudi 3 128GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
VendorIntelAMD
VRAM128 GB20 GB
Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Memory bandwidth3,276 GB/s800 GB/s
TDP600 W315 W
MSRP (list)$12,500$899
BuySearch Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 46 shared models

ModelParams (B)Gaudi 3 128GB tok/sGaudi 3 128GB fitsRX 7900 XT 20GB tok/sRX 7900 XT 20GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.82605.9 est.Yes636.4 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.02084.7 est.Yes509.1 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.21737.3 est.Yes424.2 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.01042.4 est.Yes254.5 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5694.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5694.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2694.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5694.9 est.Yes169.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3694.9 est.Yes90.4 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7694.9 est.Yes93.9 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2651.5 est.Yes131.2 measuredYesGaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5579.1 est.Yes141.4 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8548.6 est.Yes134.0 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8548.6 est.Yes134.0 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3534.5 est.Yes130.5 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB

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

Gaudi 3 128GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
Catalog models that fit47 of 6132 of 61
Largest exclusive fitDeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)

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