RTX 5070 12GB vs RX 7600 8GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 5070 12GB has about 133% more memory bandwidth (672 vs 288 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 133% faster on the RTX 5070 12GB. The RTX 5070 12GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 18 vs 17 of 61 models (12 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 5070 12GB but not the RX 7600 8GB: gemma-3-12b-it (12.2B). MSRP is $549 for the RTX 5070 12GB vs $269 for the RX 7600 8GB. 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 RTX 5070 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 38 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX 5070 12GB	RX 7600 8GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	AMD
VRAM	12 GB	8 GB
Memory type	GDDR7	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	672 GB/s	288 GB/s
TDP	250 W	165 W
MSRP (list)	$549	$269
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX 5070 12GB tok/s	RTX 5070 12GB fits	RX 7600 8GB tok/s	RX 7600 8GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	534.5 est.	Yes	229.1 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	427.6 est.	Yes	183.3 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	356.4 est.	Yes	152.7 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	266.2 est.	No	50.7 est.	No	RTX 5070 12GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	213.8 est.	Yes	91.6 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	173.6 est.	No	33.1 est.	No	RTX 5070 12GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	173.6 est.	No	33.1 est.	No	RTX 5070 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	173.6 est.	No	33.1 est.	No	RTX 5070 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	166.6 est.	No	31.7 est.	No	RTX 5070 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	133.6 est.	Yes	48.5 measured	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	7.2	120.5 measured	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	112.5 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	112.5 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	109.7 est.	Yes	47.0 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	106.9 est.	Yes	45.8 est.	Yes	RTX 5070 12GB

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 5070 12GB	RX 7600 8GB
Catalog models that fit	18 of 61	17 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	gemma-3-12b-it (12.2B)	—

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