AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB

AMD’s desktop GPUs, two generations on this site: RX 7900 XTX (24GB GDDR6, 960 GB/s, 355W, $999 MSRP, 2022) and RX 9070 / 9070 XT (16GB GDDR6, 640 GB/s, $549 / $799, 2025).

What it does well:

• Bandwidth per dollar: the 7900 XTX’s 960 GB/s at $999 beats every NVIDIA card in the same bracket for raw decode headroom on models that fit.
• 24GB tier: the 7900 XTX holds 70B dense at 3-bit or 30B at 8-bit at consumer prices.

Where it falls short: ROCm support in the mainstream runtimes (Ollama, llama.cpp) has historically lagged CUDA releases; quantization formats like EXL3 are CUDA-first, so the practical stack is GGUF via Vulkan or ROCm.

Run it locally: Ollama or llama.cpp with ROCm/Vulkan builds. The modeldex results rank checkpoints by fit and estimated tok/s.