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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 4090

Radeon RX 9070 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
AD102

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months older GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB that utilizes 128 pipelines and 16384 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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
16 GB GDDR6
VS
24 GB GDDR6X
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
18.4
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4090 over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 70% higher maximum theoretical performance (82.6 vs 48.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 177 vs 152 FPS

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9070 XT
vs
RTX 4090

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
275
199
193
155
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
292
268
191
101
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
339
238
188
90
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
203
179
170
104
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
200
163
132
74
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
266
263
219
151
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
188
152
137
91
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
226
208
143
66
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
302
284
222
118
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 255
1080p Ultra 194 217
1440p Ultra 152 177
4K Ultra 88 106
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
RX 9070 XT
26251
RTX 4090 +61%
42169
Time Spy 29556 36299
Solar Bay 122220 187525
Port Royal 18363 26127
Fire Strike 66319 72432
Wild Life Extreme 54672 85218
Night Raid 194947 195813
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 XT
182816
RTX 4090 +73%
316301
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 FPS 48090.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9070 XT +54%
50113
RTX 4090
32578

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT
26913
RTX 4090 +41%
38039
G2D Mark 1310 1303
DirectX 11 295 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 151 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 25991 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 22563 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT
3287.07
RTX 4090 +255%
11681.51
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 8966 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
Add View all (4)
GeForce RTX 4090
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-03 (afroman420IU)Cinebench 202432578
Add View all (1)

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 9070 XT
39190
RTX 4090 +10%
42962
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT
55727
RTX 4090 +7%
59636
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +6%
33599
RTX 4090
31670
Image Classification (SP) 18001 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 48114
Face Detection (HP) 74776 78111
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 289639
Text Classification (SP) 5163 4074
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 6349
Object Detection (SP) 19602 21186
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 75599
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 601428
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 4090

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 September 20, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $1599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 48 AD102
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5090
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i9 14900K or above
Desktop GPU rating (12th and 3rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 2520 MHz
Shading Units 4096 16384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 512
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 176
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 128
Tensor Cores 128 512
Ray-tracing Cores 64 128
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 72MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 380 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT
48.7 TFLOPS
RTX 4090 +70%
82.6 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 304 W 450 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 609 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 24 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2625 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 XT
644.6 GB/s
RTX 4090 +57%
1010 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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