RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs RX 9070 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB has about 50% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 640 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 50% 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 9070 16GB: Qwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B). MSRP is $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 36 rows vs 8. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB	RX 9070 16GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	AMD
VRAM	48 GB	16 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	960 GB/s	640 GB/s
TDP	300 W	220 W
MSRP (list)	$6,800	$549
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 44 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB tok/s	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB fits	RX 9070 16GB tok/s	RX 9070 16GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	763.6 est.	Yes	509.1 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	624.8 est.	No	46.3 est.	No	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	610.9 est.	Yes	407.3 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	509.1 est.	Yes	339.4 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	305.5 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	203.6 est.	Yes	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	203.6 est.	Yes	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	203.6 est.	Yes	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	203.6 est.	Yes	282.1 est.	No	RX 9070 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	203.6 est.	Yes	48.1 est.	No	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	190.9 est.	Yes	127.3 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	169.7 est.	Yes	113.1 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	7.2	166.6 measured	Yes	101.3 measured	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	160.8 est.	Yes	107.2 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	160.8 est.	Yes	107.2 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB

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 6000 Ada 48GB	RX 9070 16GB
Catalog models that fit	39 of 61	25 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	Qwen3-Coder-Next (79.7B)	—

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