NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 679.99

$ 870.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

19220 points

37% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

333 FPS

393 FPS

60 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

273 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

362 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

158 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

65 FPS

111 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

107 FPS

153 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

98 FPS

181 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Dead Island 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

125 FPS

128 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Dead Island 2 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS

124 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

110 FPS

231 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

174 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS

142 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

117 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

103 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

108 FPS

156 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

54 FPS

91 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

254% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

3540.90 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

187759 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

213258 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1800 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2400 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

20% slightly more memory

20 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

17% slightly higher memory bandwidth

800 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

315 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

12288

17% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

768

134% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

192

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has slightly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 20 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 315 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7900 XT over the GeForce RTX 3090.