Question 1

Is the RX 7900 GRE 16GB or the RX 9070 XT 16GB better for local LLMs?

Accepted Answer

The RX 9070 XT 16GB has about 11% more memory bandwidth (640 vs 576 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 11% faster on the RX 9070 XT 16GB. Both fit the same number of catalog models at Q4/8K (25 of 61; 16 vs 16 GB VRAM). MSRP is $549 for the RX 7900 GRE 16GB vs $599 for the RX 9070 XT 16GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price.

Question 2

How much faster is the RX 7900 GRE 16GB than the RX 9070 XT 16GB for LLM inference?

Accepted Answer

On memory bandwidth the RX 9070 XT 16GB leads by about 11% (640 vs 576 GB/s), and batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth. In the Q4/8K head-to-head on this page, the RX 7900 GRE 16GB wins 1 of 44 shared model rows and the RX 9070 XT 16GB wins 43.

Question 3

Which can run larger models, the RX 7900 GRE 16GB or the RX 9070 XT 16GB?

Accepted Answer

Neither — both fit 25 of 61 catalog models at Q4/8K (16 vs 16 GB VRAM).

	RX 7900 GRE 16GB	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Vendor	AMD	AMD
VRAM	16 GB	16 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	576 GB/s	640 GB/s
TDP	260 W	304 W
MSRP (list)	$549	$599
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

Model	Params (B)	RX 7900 GRE 16GB tok/s	RX 7900 GRE 16GB fits	RX 9070 XT 16GB tok/s	RX 9070 XT 16GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	458.2 est.	Yes	509.1 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	366.5 est.	Yes	407.3 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	305.5 est.	Yes	339.4 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	264.5 est.	No	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	264.5 est.	No	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	264.5 est.	No	293.9 est.	No	RX 9070 XT 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	253.9 est.	No	282.1 est.	No	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	114.5 est.	Yes	89.6 measured	Yes	RX 7900 GRE 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	101.8 est.	Yes	113.1 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	96.5 est.	Yes	107.2 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	96.5 est.	Yes	107.2 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	94.0 est.	Yes	104.4 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	7.2	50.9 est.	Yes	103.3 measured	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	91.6 est.	Yes	101.8 est.	Yes	RX 9070 XT 16GB

RX 7900 GRE 16GB vs RX 9070 XT 16GB for Local LLMs

Spec comparison

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 44 shared models

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	RX 7900 GRE 16GB	RX 9070 XT 16GB
Catalog models that fit	25 of 61	25 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	—	—