AMD
24GB alternative
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
The cheapest way to 24GB of VRAM in a card you can still buy new.
Launch MSRP $999 (2022). Street prices move daily; the links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
24GB GDDR6
Memory24GB GDDR6
MSRP$999
Board power355W
Released2022
Will it run your models?
VRAM meter24GB
8B5GB
14B9GB
24B14GB
32B20GB
70B40GB
Local AI fit: 32B-class models. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Why you buy it
- 24GB VRAM for under $1,000
- Excellent 4K raster performance
- Well supported by llama.cpp and Ollama
Why you hesitate
- Ray tracing well behind NVIDIA
- CUDA-only tools lock it out
- 355W and runs warm
The editor's take
Still a very fast 4K raster card, and the only sub-$1,000 path to 24GB that is not a used listing. Ollama and llama.cpp run well on it now, so the local AI story is real if your stack is inference rather than training. Ray tracing and the broader CUDA world remain the trade-offs. Discounted units make this the sleeper value in the whole catalog.
Who it's for: 4K gamers and adventurous local AI users who want 24GB without paying used 4090 prices, and who can live inside the ROCm ecosystem.