AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB with 5120 shaders against the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB that utilizes 56 pipelines and 7168 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6X
59.2
(Average)
Value Index
46.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 SUPER over RX 7900 GRE
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 GRE
  • 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (46 vs 35.5 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 20% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (206K vs 172K)
  • Has 40% more shading units (7168 vs 5120)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
212
144
126
91
-
The Witcher 3
220
201
145
76
-
Counter-Strike 2
304
212
152
81
-
Far Cry 6
180
155
138
88
-
Hogwarts Legacy
137
108
87
50
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
199
187
138
92
-
Ghost of Tsushima
139
119
98
59
-
Cyberpunk 2077
154
133
95
44
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
233
225
171
88
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 198 -
1080p Ultra 165 -
1440p Ultra 128 -
4K Ultra 74 -
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
21369
21566
Time Spy 22544 20879
Solar Bay 90933 98188
Port Royal 12467 13123
Fire Strike 56225 50092
Wild Life Extreme 41755 41625
Night Raid 169714 164614
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
172224
206598
Background Blur 352.4 img/sec 359.5 img/sec
Face Detection 229 img/sec 210 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.42 Gpixels/sec 7.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.86 Gpixels/sec 10.4 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.89 Gpixels/sec 11.3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.5 Gpixels/sec 1.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 662.8 Gpixels/sec 969.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 24012 FPS 29061.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
12461
20703

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
27453
29939
G2D Mark 1212 1193
DirectX 11 300 FPS 271 FPS
DirectX 12 111 FPS 110 FPS
GPU Compute 15210 Ops/s 16925 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2161 & 15799 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2825.7
6145.7
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 261 & 2595 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Rickey)Cinebench 202419110
📘 2025-11-28 (Caleb)Geekbench 6 OpenCL212148
📘 2025-11-28 (Caleb)Cinebench 202420703

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
34533
GB6 ML Half Precision
42224
43851
GB6 ML Quantized
26568
Image Classification (SP) 15095 12146
Image Segmentation (HP) 21206 23932
Image Super Resolution (Q) 33962 36321
Face Detection (HP) 57614 52836
Pose Estimation (Q) 214748 179788
Text Classification (SP) 4325 3371
Machine Translation (HP) 6598 5017
Object Detection (SP) 16608 15164
Depth Estimation (Q) 57731 62500
Style Transfer (SP) 394987 357489
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 GRE and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released - January 17, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 31 AD104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7900 XT
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (18th and 19th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1287 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 2245 MHz 2475 MHz
Shading Units 5120 7168
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 320 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 160 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 56
Tensor Cores - 224
Ray-tracing Cores 80 56
L1 Cache 256KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 48MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 359 GPixel/s 198 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 718 GTexel/s 554 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
46 TFLOPS
35.5 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 260 W 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 529 mm² 294 mm²
Transistor Count 57 billion 35 billion
Transistor Density 107.75 MTr/mm² 119.05 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
576 GB/s
504.2 GB/s

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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