AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
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 4080 SUPER 16 GB that utilizes 80 pipelines and 10240 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 7900 XTX
- Shows 7% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 159 vs 149 FPS
- 18% higher maximum theoretical performance (61.4 vs 52.2 TFLOPS)
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Has 30% higher memory bandwidth: 960 vs 736.3 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Has 67% more shading units (10240 vs 6144)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 253 175 156 122 |
231 166 153 123 |
| The Witcher 3 | 280 251 177 96 |
242 215 158 83 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 333 227 166 85 |
302 227 167 85 |
| Far Cry 6 | 212 181 170 109 |
182 162 146 92 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 167 143 113 64 |
166 136 110 60 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 264 251 192 128 |
216 208 168 115 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 168 140 122 77 |
146 125 111 71 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 203 181 126 59 |
199 174 123 59 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 302 274 208 112 |
288 266 201 112 |
| 1080p High | 242 | 219 |
| 1080p Ultra | 203 | 187 |
| 1440p Ultra | 159 | 149 |
| 4K Ultra | 95 | 89 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 30804 | 28271 |
| Solar Bay | 123985 | 139050 |
| Port Royal | 16759 | 18353 |
| Fire Strike | 73279 | 63706 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 58739 | 59996 |
| Night Raid | 183191 | 180569 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 423.9 img/sec | 279.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 270.8 img/sec | 220.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.23 Gpixels/sec | 11 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 13.7 Gpixels/sec | 15.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.1 Gpixels/sec | 16.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.74 Gpixels/sec | 2.08 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 871 Gpixels/sec | 1370 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29891.2 FPS | 37199.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1290 | 1278 |
| DirectX 11 | 355 FPS | 299 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 134 FPS | 135 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 17777 Ops/s | 19585 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
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) | 18608 | 12453 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25385 | 34467 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45641 | 43534 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71321 | 70300 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 257258 | 242331 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5240 | 3767 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7425 | 6614 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 21335 | 18301 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66140 | 66477 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 483867 | 417906 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 3, 2022 | January 31, 2024 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $999 |
| 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 7th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1929 MHz | 2295 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2498 MHz | 2550 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 10240 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 384 | 320 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 80 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 320 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 96 | 80 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 480 GPixel/s | 286 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 959 GTexel/s | 816 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 | 355 W | 320 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 | 1438 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 23000 Mbps |
| Bus | 384-bit | 256-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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