AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB with 6144 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB that utilizes 66 pipelines and 8448 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
24 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6X
82.8
(Good)
Value Index
33.1
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 Ti SUPER over RX 7900 XTX
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 XTX
  • Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 39% higher maximum theoretical performance (61.4 vs 44.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 19% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 159 vs 134 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 43% higher memory bandwidth: 960 vs 672.3 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 38% more shading units (8448 vs 6144)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
253
175
156
122
210
148
140
107
The Witcher 3
280
251
177
96
221
192
140
72
Counter-Strike 2
333
227
166
85
294
219
164
83
Far Cry 6
212
181
170
109
168
156
138
83
Hogwarts Legacy
167
143
113
64
146
122
94
54
CoD: Modern Warfare III
264
251
192
128
195
189
144
99
Ghost of Tsushima
168
140
122
77
134
113
95
62
Cyberpunk 2077
203
181
126
59
169
153
105
49
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
302
274
208
112
270
250
190
106
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 242 201
1080p Ultra 203 171
1440p Ultra 159 134
4K Ultra 95 79
Margin of Error Low Low

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
29905
Time Spy 30804 24220
Solar Bay 123985 116588
Port Royal 16759 15806
Fire Strike 73279 56343
Wild Life Extreme 58739 49911
Night Raid 183191 176672
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
224686
237068
Background Blur 423.9 img/sec 331.7 img/sec
Face Detection 270.8 img/sec 211.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 9.23 Gpixels/sec 9.63 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.1 Gpixels/sec 13.9 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.74 Gpixels/sec 2.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 871 Gpixels/sec 1210 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 29891.2 FPS 33566 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
15603
23395

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
31462
31839
G2D Mark 1290 1246
DirectX 11 355 FPS 277 FPS
DirectX 12 134 FPS 120 FPS
GPU Compute 17777 Ops/s 18196 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11647 & 10564 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4077.59
7087.93
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2454 & 2024 samples

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
42092
GB6 ML Half Precision
50673
GB6 ML Quantized
32874
Image Classification (SP) 18608 12970
Image Segmentation (HP) 25385 26364
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45641 37217
Face Detection (HP) 71321 58720
Pose Estimation (Q) 257258 177604
Text Classification (SP) 5240 3815
Machine Translation (HP) 7425 5829
Object Detection (SP) 21335 15675
Depth Estimation (Q) 66140 62447
Style Transfer (SP) 483867 357918
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released November 3, 2022 January 24, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $799
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 31 AD103
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4080 - Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 13700K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 13th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1929 MHz 2340 MHz
Boost Clock 2498 MHz 2610 MHz
Shading Units 6144 8448
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 384 264
Render Output Units (ROPs) 192 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 66
Tensor Cores - 264
Ray-tracing Cores 96 66
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 480 GPixel/s 251 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 959 GTexel/s 689 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
61.4 TFLOPS
44.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 355 W 285 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 529 mm² 379 mm²
Transistor Count 57 billion 45 billion
Transistor Density 107.75 MTr/mm² 118.73 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2500 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
960 GB/s
672.3 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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