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RX 7700 XT 12GB vs RX 7900 XT 20GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7900 XT 20GB has about 85% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 432 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 85% faster on the RX 7900 XT 20GB. The RX 7900 XT 20GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 32 vs 18 of 61 models (20 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 7900 XT 20GB but not the RX 7700 XT 12GB: GLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B). MSRP is $449 for the RX 7700 XT 12GB vs $899 for the RX 7900 XT 20GB. 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 (40 shared models), the RX 7900 XT 20GB posts the higher tok/s in 33 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RX 7700 XT 12GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
VendorAMDAMD
VRAM12 GB20 GB
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory bandwidth432 GB/s800 GB/s
TDP245 W315 W
MSRP (list)$449$899
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 40 shared models

ModelParams (B)RX 7700 XT 12GB tok/sRX 7700 XT 12GB fitsRX 7900 XT 20GB tok/sRX 7900 XT 20GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8343.6 est.Yes636.4 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0274.9 est.Yes509.1 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2229.1 est.Yes424.2 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0137.5 est.Yes254.5 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5171.1 est.No141.4 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5111.6 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5111.6 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2107.1 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5111.6 est.No169.7 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.872.3 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.872.3 est.Yes134.0 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.285.9 est.Yes131.2 measuredYesRX 7900 XT 20GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.370.5 est.Yes130.5 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.068.7 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.068.7 est.Yes127.3 est.YesRX 7900 XT 20GB

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 7700 XT 12GBRX 7900 XT 20GB
Catalog models that fit18 of 6132 of 61
Largest exclusive fitGLM-4.7-Flash (31.2B)

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