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RTX 4070 12GB vs RX 7900 XT 20GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7900 XT 20GB has about 59% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 504 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 59% faster on the RX 7900 XT 20GB. The RX 7900 XT 20GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 32 vs 18 of 61 models (20 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 7900 XT 20GB but not the RTX 4070 12GB: GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B). MSRP is $599 for the RTX 4070 12GB 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 (40 shared models), the RX 7900 XT 20GB posts the higher tok/s in 32 rows vs 8. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 4070 12GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM12 GB20 GB
Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Memory bandwidth504 GB/s800 GB/s
TDP200 W315 W
MSRP (list)$599$899
BuyASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC 12GB (affiliate) · More listingsSearch Amazon (affiliate)

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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 40 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 4070 12GB tok/sRTX 4070 12GB fitsRX 7900 XT 20GB tok/sRX 7900 XT 20GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8400.9 est.Yes636.4 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0320.7 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2267.3 est.Yes424.2 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0160.4 est.Yes254.5 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5199.6 est.No141.4 est.YesRTX 4070 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5130.2 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5130.2 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2125.0 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5130.2 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2160.7 measuredYes131.2 measuredYesRTX 4070 12GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.884.4 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.884.4 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.382.2 est.Yes130.5 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.080.2 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.080.2 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB

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 4070 12GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
Catalog models that fit18 of 6132 of 61
Largest exclusive fitGLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B)

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