AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 7900M
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
AD103 (GN21-X11)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900M with 4608 shaders against the 8 months older GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
- Performs better (up to 31%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 123 vs 106 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 34% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (203K vs 151K)
- Has 2.1x more shading units (9728 vs 4608)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 194 124 107 77 |
188 131 122 92 |
| The Witcher 3 | 192 169 123 66 |
211 176 132 67 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 283 197 140 79 |
277 217 158 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 154 139 118 72 |
160 144 125 79 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 114 95 72 38 |
137 111 86 47 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 159 156 111 70 |
177 165 132 84 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 119 99 78 48 |
122 102 86 52 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 123 110 73 33 |
151 135 93 44 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 203 183 135 71 |
250 235 175 96 |
| 1080p High | 171 | 186 |
| 1080p Ultra | 141 | 157 |
| 1440p Ultra | 106 | 123 |
| 4K Ultra | 62 | 71 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 17931 | 21388 |
| Solar Bay | 78139 | 96121 |
| Port Royal | 10135 | 13734 |
| Fire Strike | 41648 | 45207 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 35258 | 42501 |
| Night Raid | 154612 | 147911 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 305.8 img/sec | 264 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 201.4 img/sec | 134.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 9.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.19 Gpixels/sec | 12.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 6.77 Gpixels/sec | 13.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.32 Gpixels/sec | 1.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 540.4 Gpixels/sec | 1060 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 22269 FPS | 29225.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 888 | 988 |
| DirectX 11 | 258 FPS | 257 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 97 FPS | 106 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9066 Ops/s | 12157 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-09 (Horikita) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 213782 |
| 📘 2025-11-03 (JJ) | Cinebench 2024 | 23277 |
| 📘 2025-11-03 (JJ) | Cinebench 2024 | 22714 |
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) | 11249 | 11346 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 13771 | 24625 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 30143 | 36874 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 31918 | 50088 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 163344 | 174844 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3882 | 3226 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3734 | 4905 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12629 | 14667 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 45969 | 53868 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 303544 | 340056 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900M and GeForce RTX 4090 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 19, 2023 | February 8, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | AD103 (GN21-X11) |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (11th and 4th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1825 MHz | 930-1620 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2090 MHz | 1455-2040 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 4608 | 9728 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 288 | 304 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 76 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 304 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 72 | 76 |
| 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 | 401 GPixel/s | 163-228 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 602 GTexel/s | 442-620 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 | 180 W | 80-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 379 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57.7 billion | 45.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 109.07 MTr/mm² | 121.11 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-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 | - | 1.4a |
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