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RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs RX 9070 16GB for Local LLMs

The RX 9070 16GB has about 43% more memory bandwidth (640 vs 448 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 43% faster on the RX 9070 16GB. The RX 9070 16GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 25 vs 17 of 61 models (16 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 9070 16GB but not the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB: gpt-oss-20b (21.5B). MSRP is $379 for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB 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. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (38 shared models), the RX 9070 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 37 rows vs 1. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 5060 Ti 8GBRX 9070 16GB
VendorNVIDIAAMD
VRAM8 GB16 GB
Memory typeGDDR7GDDR6
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s640 GB/s
TDP180 W220 W
MSRP (list)$379$549
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 5060 Ti 8GB tok/sRTX 5060 Ti 8GB fitsRX 9070 16GB tok/sRX 9070 16GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8356.4 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0285.1 est.Yes407.3 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2237.6 est.Yes339.4 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.551.4 est.No293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.551.4 est.No293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.551.4 est.No293.9 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.249.4 est.No282.1 est.NoRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0142.5 est.Yes203.6 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.289.1 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
gpt-oss-20b21.578.9 est.No113.1 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.875.0 est.Yes107.2 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.875.0 est.Yes107.2 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.373.1 est.Yes104.4 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.071.3 est.Yes101.8 est.YesRX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.071.3 est.Yes101.8 est.YesRX 9070 16GB

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 5060 Ti 8GBRX 9070 16GB
Catalog models that fit17 of 6125 of 61
Largest exclusive fitgpt-oss-20b (21.5B)

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