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RTX 3090 24GB vs RX 7900 XT 20GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 3090 24GB has about 17% more memory bandwidth (936 vs 800 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 17% faster on the RTX 3090 24GB. The RTX 3090 24GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 33 vs 32 of 61 models (24 vs 20 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 3090 24GB but not the RX 7900 XT 20GB: gemma-3-27b-it (27.4B). MSRP is $1,499 for the RTX 3090 24GB 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 RTX 3090 24GB posts the higher tok/s in 44 rows vs 2. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 3090 24GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM24 GB20 GB
Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Memory bandwidth936 GB/s800 GB/s
TDP350 W315 W
MSRP (list)$1,499$899
BuyMSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC (affiliate) · More listingsSearch 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)RTX 3090 24GB tok/sRTX 3090 24GB fitsRX 7900 XT 20GB tok/sRX 7900 XT 20GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8744.5 est.Yes636.4 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0595.6 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2496.4 est.Yes424.2 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0297.8 est.Yes254.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5198.5 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5198.5 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2198.5 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5198.5 est.Yes169.7 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2186.1 est.Yes131.2 measuredYesRTX 3090 24GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5161.8 measuredYes141.4 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7158.2 est.No93.9 est.NoRTX 3090 24GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8156.7 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8156.7 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3152.7 est.Yes130.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3152.3 est.No90.4 est.NoRTX 3090 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

RTX 3090 24GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
Catalog models that fit33 of 6132 of 61
Largest exclusive fitgemma-3-27b-it (27.4B)

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