AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070
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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
AD104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700 XT with 3456 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 4070 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 7700 XT
- 21% higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 29.1 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
- Performs better (up to 21%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 7% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 106 vs 99 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 26% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 132K)
- Has 70% more shading units (5888 vs 3456)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 186 117 96 70 |
172 115 102 79 |
| The Witcher 3 | 179 152 113 61 |
194 159 114 61 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 268 195 134 74 |
272 205 149 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | 145 131 110 63 |
149 133 115 68 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 106 89 69 39 |
117 97 77 39 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 148 143 102 64 |
149 145 107 69 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 111 90 73 44 |
106 88 72 43 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 115 103 65 31 |
129 119 75 37 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 192 176 130 67 |
211 190 145 80 |
| 1080p High | 161 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 133 | 139 |
| 1440p Ultra | 99 | 106 |
| 4K Ultra | 57 | 62 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 17109 | 17799 |
| Solar Bay | 65104 | 82861 |
| Port Royal | 9114 | 11156 |
| Fire Strike | 42722 | 44067 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 30428 | 35472 |
| Night Raid | 147320 | 153385 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 285.8 img/sec | 233 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 181.6 img/sec | 141.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.9 Gpixels/sec | 6.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 6.66 Gpixels/sec | 9.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.68 Gpixels/sec | 9.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.18 Gpixels/sec | 1.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 493 Gpixels/sec | 845.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 19410.5 FPS | 25043.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1157 | 1165 |
| DirectX 11 | 232 FPS | 243 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 83 FPS | 103 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 12980 Ops/s | 14570 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7700 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912) | GeekBench | 135040 |
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) | 11284 | 10246 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14150 | 26153 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27972 | 32054 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 35311 | 51337 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 142235 | 124617 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3836 | 3703 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4471 | 5484 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12084 | 13134 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 49197 | 50548 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 301429 | 263477 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and GeForce RTX 4070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | September 6, 2023 | April 13, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | $599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 32 | AD104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | - Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (33rd and 28th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1435 MHz | 1920 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2544 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3456 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 216 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 54 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 36MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 244 GPixel/s | 158 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 550 GTexel/s | 455 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 245 W | 200 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 346 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | 35 billion |
| Transistor Density | 80.92 MTr/mm² | 119.05 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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