AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB with 5376 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
20 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6X
95.3
(Very good)
Value Index
46.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 SUPER over RX 7900 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 XT
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 45% higher maximum theoretical performance (51.5 vs 35.5 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 59% higher memory bandwidth: 800 vs 504.2 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 33% more shading units (7168 vs 5376)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
235
160
141
107
-
The Witcher 3
249
225
160
87
-
Counter-Strike 2
311
222
157
81
-
Far Cry 6
196
168
151
100
-
Hogwarts Legacy
153
124
98
56
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
228
214
163
108
-
Ghost of Tsushima
150
126
109
69
-
Cyberpunk 2077
181
156
108
49
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
271
258
189
101
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 219 -
1080p Ultra 184 -
1440p Ultra 142 -
4K Ultra 84 -
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
RX 7900 XT +14%
24675
Time Spy 27106 20879
Solar Bay 105357 98188
Port Royal 14360 13123
Fire Strike 67227 50092
Wild Life Extreme 48410 41625
Night Raid 176232 164614
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
203754
206598
Background Blur 419.8 img/sec 359.5 img/sec
Face Detection 240.5 img/sec 210 img/sec
Horizon Detection 8.72 Gpixels/sec 7.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 12 Gpixels/sec 10.4 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.88 Gpixels/sec 11.3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.71 Gpixels/sec 1.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 701.7 Gpixels/sec 969.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 26631.4 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
11648
20703

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
29124
29939
G2D Mark 1247 1193
DirectX 11 341 FPS 271 FPS
DirectX 12 112 FPS 110 FPS
GPU Compute 16878 Ops/s 16925 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 7237 & 15799 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3558.92
6145.7
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 949 & 2595 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7900 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-01-01 (Mr Scare)Cinebench 202411648
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
RX 7900 XT +27%
39099
GB6 ML Half Precision
47298
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7900 XT +30%
30875
Image Classification (SP) 16951 12146
Image Segmentation (HP) 23234 23932
Image Super Resolution (Q) 41128 36321
Face Detection (HP) 67615 52836
Pose Estimation (Q) 237026 179788
Text Classification (SP) 4961 3371
Machine Translation (HP) 7043 5017
Object Detection (SP) 18737 15164
Depth Estimation (Q) 67746 62500
Style Transfer (SP) 457919 357489
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

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

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released December 13, 2023 January 17, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $899 $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 - GeForce RTX 4080 - Radeon RX 7900 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 13700K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (11th and 19th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1387 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 2394 MHz 2475 MHz
Shading Units 5376 7168
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 192 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 56
Tensor Cores - 224
Ray-tracing Cores 84 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 460 GPixel/s 198 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 804 GTexel/s 554 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7900 XT +45%
51.5 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 300 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 20 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2500 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 320-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7900 XT +59%
800 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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