AMD RX 7900 XTX Outperforms Nvidia RTX 4090 in DeepSeek AI Benchmarks

AMD's flagship GPU demonstrates superior AI inference performance in select benchmarks, supported by new guidance for running DeepSeek R1 locally.

AMD claims its RX 7900 XTX GPU outperforms Nvidia's RTX 4090 by up to 13% in DeepSeek R1 AI benchmarks, with even greater gains against the RTX 4080 Super.
The RX 7900 XTX excelled in specific configurations, including a 34% lead over the RTX 4080 Super using Distill Qwen 7B and an 11% lead over the RTX 4090 with Distill Llama 8B.
DeepSeek R1's efficiency, reportedly 11 times higher than competitors, has been optimized for consumer-grade GPUs, including AMD's RDNA 3 architecture and Ryzen AI CPUs.
AMD released detailed instructions for running DeepSeek R1 locally on Radeon GPUs and Ryzen AI CPUs, requiring Adrenalin 25.1.1 drivers and LM Studio software.
The DeepSeek R1 AI model is compatible with a range of AMD hardware, offering privacy advantages by enabling local processing without reliance on external servers.