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RTX 4090D 24GB (China) vs RX 9070 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) has about 57% more memory bandwidth (1,008 vs 640 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 57% faster on the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 33 vs 25 of 61 models (24 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) but not the RX 9070 16GB: GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B). MSRP is $1,599 for the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) vs $549 for the RX 9070 16GB. 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) posts the higher tok/s in 34 rows vs 10. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 4090D 24GB (China)RX 9070 16GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM24 GB16 GB
Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/s640 GB/s
TDP425 W220 W
MSRP (list)$1,599$549
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 44 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 4090D 24GB (China) tok/sRTX 4090D 24GB (China) fitsRX 9070 16GB tok/sRX 9070 16GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8801.8 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
gemma-3-1b-it1.0641.5 est.Yes407.3 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2534.5 est.Yes339.4 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Qwen3-1.7B2.0320.7 est.Yes203.6 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5213.8 est.Yes293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5213.8 est.Yes293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5213.8 est.Yes293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2213.8 est.Yes282.1 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2200.5 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
gpt-oss-20b21.5178.2 est.Yes113.1 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7170.4 est.No48.1 est.NoRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8168.8 est.Yes107.2 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8168.8 est.Yes107.2 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
gemma-3-4b-it4.3164.5 est.Yes104.4 est.YesRTX 4090D 24GB (China)
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3164.0 est.No46.3 est.NoRTX 4090D 24GB (China)

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 4090D 24GB (China)RX 9070 16GB
Catalog models that fit33 of 6125 of 61
Largest exclusive fitGLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B)

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