RTX 4060 Ti 8GB vs RX 7900 XTX 24GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7900 XTX 24GB has about 233% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 288 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 233% faster on the RX 7900 XTX 24GB. The RX 7900 XTX 24GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 33 vs 17 of 61 models (24 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 7900 XTX 24GB but not the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB: GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B). MSRP is $399 for the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 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 (38 shared models), the RX 7900 XTX 24GB posts the higher tok/s in 38 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	AMD
VRAM	8 GB	24 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	960 GB/s
TDP	160 W	355 W
MSRP (list)	$399	$999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB tok/s	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB fits	RX 7900 XTX 24GB tok/s	RX 7900 XTX 24GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	229.1 est.	Yes	763.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	183.3 est.	Yes	610.9 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	152.7 est.	Yes	509.1 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	91.6 est.	Yes	305.5 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	33.1 est.	No	203.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	33.1 est.	No	203.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	31.7 est.	No	203.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	33.1 est.	No	203.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	57.3 est.	Yes	190.9 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	50.7 est.	No	169.7 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	48.2 est.	Yes	160.8 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	48.2 est.	Yes	160.8 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	47.0 est.	Yes	156.6 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	45.8 est.	Yes	152.7 est.	Yes	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507	4.0	45.8 est.	Yes	152.7 est.	Yes	RX 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

	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB	RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Catalog models that fit	17 of 61	33 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	—	GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B)

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