AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4090
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
AD102
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX with 6144 shaders against the GeForce RTX 4090 that utilizes 128 pipelines and 16384 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 GeForce RTX 4090
- Performs significantly better (up to 41%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 35% higher maximum theoretical performance (82.6 vs 61.4 TFLOPS)
- Shows 11% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 177 vs 159 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 41% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (316K vs 224K)
- Has 2.7x more shading units (16384 vs 6144)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 253 175 156 122 |
275 199 193 155 |
| The Witcher 3 | 280 251 177 96 |
292 268 191 101 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 333 227 166 85 |
339 238 188 90 |
| Far Cry 6 | 212 181 170 109 |
203 179 170 104 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 167 143 113 64 |
200 163 132 74 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 264 251 192 128 |
266 263 219 151 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 168 140 122 77 |
188 152 137 91 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 203 181 126 59 |
226 208 143 66 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 302 274 208 112 |
302 284 222 118 |
| 1080p High | 242 | 255 |
| 1080p Ultra | 203 | 217 |
| 1440p Ultra | 159 | 177 |
| 4K Ultra | 95 | 106 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 30804 | 36299 |
| Solar Bay | 123985 | 187525 |
| Port Royal | 16759 | 26127 |
| Fire Strike | 73279 | 72432 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 58739 | 85218 |
| Night Raid | 183191 | 195813 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 423.9 img/sec | 318.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 270.8 img/sec | 222.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.23 Gpixels/sec | 14.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 13.7 Gpixels/sec | 21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.1 Gpixels/sec | 23.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.74 Gpixels/sec | 2.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 871 Gpixels/sec | 1950 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29891.2 FPS | 48090.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1290 | 1303 |
| DirectX 11 | 355 FPS | 323 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 134 FPS | 151 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 17777 Ops/s | 25991 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4090
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-03 (afroman420IU) | Cinebench 2024 | 32578 |
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 | 15600 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25385 | 36657 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45641 | 48114 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71321 | 78111 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 257258 | 289639 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5240 | 4074 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7425 | 6349 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 21335 | 21186 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66140 | 75599 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 483867 | 601428 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4090General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 3, 2022 | September 20, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $1599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | AD102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5090 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i9 14900K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 3rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1929 MHz | 2235 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2498 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 16384 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 384 | 512 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 176 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 512 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 96 | 128 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 72MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 480 GPixel/s | 444 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 959 GTexel/s | 1290 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 | 450 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 609 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57 billion | 76.3 billion |
| Transistor Density | 107.75 MTr/mm² | 125.29 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2500 MHz | 2625 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 384-bit | 384-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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