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Local LLM & GPU

Does CUDA Beat VRAM? I Ran the Same 30B Model on a 2080 Ti and an RX 9070 XT
ByMoonWork August 14, 2026August 15, 2026

Same model, same build, same test — one on an RTX 2080 Ti (11GB, CUDA), one on an RX 9070 XT (16GB, Vulkan). The result split: 1.9x prompt processing one way, 1.3x generation the other.

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Local LLM & GPU

I Ran Qwen3-Coder 30B on an AMD RX 9070 XT — 47 tok/s, No ROCm Required
ByMoonWork August 13, 2026August 15, 2026

Real llama-bench numbers for Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B on an AMD RX 9070 XT (16GB, RDNA4) using llama.cpp with Vulkan — including the full n-cpu-moe sweep that took generation from 21 to 47 tok/s.

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