AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Navi 21
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
AD104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB with 5120 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6900 XT
- Shows 14% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 121 vs 106 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (29.1 vs 23 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 35% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 124K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 212 139 117 90 |
172 115 102 79 |
| The Witcher 3 | 209 186 138 71 |
194 159 114 61 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 296 213 153 81 |
272 205 149 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | 173 147 131 83 |
149 133 115 68 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 129 107 80 46 |
117 97 77 39 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 186 178 128 85 |
149 145 107 69 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 129 112 92 55 |
106 88 72 43 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 142 127 86 42 |
129 119 75 37 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 228 213 161 80 |
211 190 145 80 |
| 1080p High | 189 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 158 | 139 |
| 1440p Ultra | 121 | 106 |
| 4K Ultra | 70 | 62 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 20817 | 17799 |
| Solar Bay | 86965 | 82861 |
| Port Royal | 10543 | 11156 |
| Fire Strike | 57312 | 44067 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 39345 | 35472 |
| Night Raid | 159536 | 153385 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 231.6 img/sec | 233 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 152.5 img/sec | 141.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.26 Gpixels/sec | 6.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.75 Gpixels/sec | 9.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 9.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 1.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 618.7 Gpixels/sec | 845.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 17973.9 FPS | 25043.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1063 | 1165 |
| DirectX 11 | 279 FPS | 243 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 111 FPS | 103 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14302 Ops/s | 14570 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6900 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-04 -> phillybass | Cinebench 2024 | 8430 |
GeForce RTX 4070
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-14 (kashitsu) | Cinebench 2024 | 18051 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 13868 | 10246 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17467 | 26153 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32396 | 32054 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 47808 | 51337 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 178873 | 124617 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4358 | 3703 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7910 | 5484 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15394 | 13134 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57351 | 50548 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 372610 | 263477 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6900 XT and GeForce RTX 4070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | December 8, 2020 | April 13, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 21 | AD104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4070 | - Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 7900 XT | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 28th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1825 MHz | 1920 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2250 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 320 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 80 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 36MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 288 GPixel/s | 158 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 720 GTexel/s | 455 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 300 W | 200 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 26 billion | 35 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50 MTr/mm² | 119.05 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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