RX 7600 8GB vs T4 16GB for Local LLMs

The T4 16GB has about 11% more memory bandwidth (320 vs 288 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 11% faster on the T4 16GB. The T4 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 T4 16GB but not the RX 7600 8GB: gpt-oss-20b (21.5B). MSRP is $269 for the RX 7600 8GB vs $2,000 for the T4 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 T4 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 31 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RX 7600 8GB	T4 16GB
Vendor	AMD	NVIDIA
VRAM	8 GB	16 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	320 GB/s
TDP	165 W	70 W
MSRP (list)	$269	$2,000
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search 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 38 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RX 7600 8GB tok/s	RX 7600 8GB fits	T4 16GB tok/s	T4 16GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	229.1 est.	Yes	254.5 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	152.7 est.	Yes	169.7 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	33.1 est.	No	147.0 est.	No	T4 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	33.1 est.	No	147.0 est.	No	T4 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	33.1 est.	No	147.0 est.	No	T4 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	31.7 est.	No	141.1 est.	No	T4 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	91.6 est.	Yes	101.8 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	48.5 measured	Yes	63.6 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	50.7 est.	No	56.6 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	48.2 est.	Yes	53.6 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	48.2 est.	Yes	53.6 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	47.0 est.	Yes	52.2 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	45.8 est.	Yes	50.9 est.	Yes	T4 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507	4.0	45.8 est.	Yes	50.9 est.	Yes	T4 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

	RX 7600 8GB	T4 16GB
Catalog models that fit	17 of 61	25 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	—	gpt-oss-20b (21.5B)

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