RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs RX 7600 XT 16GB for Local LLMs
The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB 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 RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 39 vs 25 of 61 models (48 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB but not the RX 7600 XT 16GB: Qwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B). MSRP is $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs $329 for the RX 7600 XT 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 44 rows vs 0. Methodology.