AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070
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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
AD104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 5 months older 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 7800 XT
- 28% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 29.1 TFLOPS)
- Shows 8% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 106 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 24% higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 504 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Has 53% more shading units (5888 vs 3840)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 197 135 111 86 |
172 115 102 79 |
| The Witcher 3 | 205 174 132 66 |
194 159 114 61 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 297 206 147 80 |
272 205 149 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | 166 145 124 77 |
149 133 115 68 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 122 101 79 45 |
117 97 77 39 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 169 168 122 80 |
149 145 107 69 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 124 105 85 54 |
106 88 72 43 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 132 121 80 39 |
129 119 75 37 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 212 199 151 77 |
211 190 145 80 |
| 1080p High | 180 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 150 | 139 |
| 1440p Ultra | 115 | 106 |
| 4K Ultra | 67 | 62 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 20095 | 17799 |
| Solar Bay | 80667 | 82861 |
| Port Royal | 10917 | 11156 |
| Fire Strike | 50073 | 44067 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 37173 | 35472 |
| Night Raid | 160762 | 153385 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 300.7 img/sec | 233 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 200.5 img/sec | 141.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.77 Gpixels/sec | 6.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.05 Gpixels/sec | 9.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 6.44 Gpixels/sec | 9.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.25 Gpixels/sec | 1.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 566.4 Gpixels/sec | 845.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 20533.6 FPS | 25043.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1195 | 1165 |
| DirectX 11 | 250 FPS | 243 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 96 FPS | 103 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 13617 Ops/s | 14561 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7800 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 156177 |
| 📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV) | Steel Nomad Light | 19225 |
| 📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 152506 |
| 📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV) | Steel Nomad Light | 18724 |
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) | 13913 | 10246 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 18416 | 26153 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 31387 | 32054 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 51780 | 51337 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 177217 | 124617 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3655 | 3703 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6216 | 5484 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15073 | 13134 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57318 | 50548 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 347420 | 263477 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 4070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | September 6, 2023 | April 13, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | $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 4070 | - Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 XT | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 13600K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 28th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1920 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2430 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3840 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 240 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 60 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 36MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 233 GPixel/s | 158 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 583 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 | 263 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 | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2438 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 19500 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 | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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