RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs Radeon RX 7700 XT for local AI

RTX 4060 Ti 16GB runs 23 of 74 open models well and Radeon RX 7700 XT runs 18. Here is every model on both, with the grade and the speed you would get.

Runs more models well (grade B or better)

RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: 23 · Radeon RX 7700 XT: 18

Faster on the models both run

Radeon RX 7700 XT · ×1.3

Median speed ratio over 18 models both load fully in memory.

Most intelligent model it runs well

RTX 4060 Ti 16GBQwen3.5 9B

Radeon RX 7700 XTQwen3.5 9B

Specs that matter

	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB	Radeon RX 7700 XT
Memory compared	16 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s	432 GB/s
Memory type	Dedicated VRAM	Dedicated VRAM
Backend	CUDA	Vulkan
Released	2023	2023

Every model on both

Grade and output speed at Q4_K_M with an 8K context; green marks the better of the two.

Model	ECI	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB	Radeon RX 7700 XT
Kimi K3	157	F—	F—
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813	155	F—	F—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	155	F—	F—
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731	154	F—	F—
GLM 5.3 Flash	152	F—	F—
GLM 5.2	152	F—	F—
Kimi K2.6	151	F—	F—
tInkling Small	150	F—	F—
Kimi K2.7 Code	150	F—	F—
GLM 5.1	150	F—	F—
Qwen3.8 27B	149	C~8 t/s	C~8 t/s
DeepSeek V4 Pro	149	F—	F—
tInkling	149	F—	F—
Kimi K2.5	148	F—	F—
MiniMax M3	147	F—	F—
MiniMax M2.5	147	F—	F—
Qwen3.5 397B A17B	147	F—	F—
Qwen3.6 27B	147	C~9 t/s	C~8 t/s
DeepSeek V3.2	146	F—	F—
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B	146	F—	F—
DeepSeek V4 Flash	146	F—	F—
Kimi K2 Thinking	146	F—	F—
MiniMax M2.7	146	F—	F—
GLM 5	146	F—	F—
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp	145	F—	F—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B	144	C~54 t/s	C~48 t/s
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	144	F—	F—
GLM 4.7	144	F—	F—
Gemma 4 31B	143	C~6 t/s	C~6 t/s
Qwen3.5 35B A3B	143	C~55 t/s	C~48 t/s
Gemma 4 26B A4B	142	C~54 t/s	C~43 t/s
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B	141	F—	F—
Kimi K2	140	F—	F—
gpt-oss 120b	140	F—	F—
DeepSeek V3.1	140	F—	F—
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	140	C~52 t/s	C~44 t/s
Qwen3.5 9B	139	A~32 t/s	S~51 t/s
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507	139	F—	F—
gpt-oss 20b	138	S~90 t/s	C~96 t/s
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507	137	C~52 t/s	C~44 t/s
Magistral Small 2506	133	B~13 t/s	C~11 t/s
Mistral Small 3.2 24B	132	B~13 t/s	C~11 t/s
Magistral Small 2509	131	B~13 t/s	C~11 t/s
Phi-4 14B	130	B~19 t/s	B~33 t/s
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E	130	F—	F—
Llama 3.3 70B	127	F—	F—
Llama 3.1 8B	117	A~35 t/s	S~53 t/s
Command A+	—	F—	F—
Qwen3.8 Flash Next	—	F—	F—
Qwen3.5 122B A10B	—	F—	F—
Mistral Small 4 119B	—	F—	F—
Qwen3 Coder Next	—	F—	F—
Kimi Linear 48B A3B	—	C~44 t/s	C~43 t/s
Olmo 3.1 32B Think	—	C~6 t/s	C~6 t/s
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	—	C~38 t/s	C~37 t/s
GLM 4.7 Flash	—	C~67 t/s	C~53 t/s
North Mini Code 1.0	—	C~56 t/s	C~47 t/s
Granite 4.2 30B	—	C~6 t/s	C~6 t/s
Devstral Small 2 24B	—	B~13 t/s	C~11 t/s
Ministral 3 14B	—	A~21 t/s	B~35 t/s
Gemma 4 12B	—	A~25 t/s	S~41 t/s
Ministral 3 8B	—	A~33 t/s	S~51 t/s
Granite 4.2 8B	—	A~30 t/s	S~48 t/s
Gemma 4 E4B	—	A~37 t/s	S~56 t/s
Olmo 3 7B	—	A~29 t/s	S~46 t/s
Gemma 4 E2B	—	S~60 t/s	S~80 t/s
Qwen3.5 4B	—	S~66 t/s	S~85 t/s
Ministral 3 3B	—	S~73 t/s	S~91 t/s
Granite 4.2 3B	—	S~71 t/s	S~89 t/s
Llama 3.2 3B	—	S~76 t/s	S~93 t/s
SmolLM3 3B	—	S~85 t/s	S~100 t/s
LFM2.5 2.6B	—	S~108 t/s	S~114 t/s
Qwen3.5 2B	—	S~142 t/s	S~131 t/s
Qwen3.5 0.8B	—	S~324 t/s	S~179 t/s