NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 863.63

$ 686.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

24895 points

77% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

529 FPS

196 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

351 FPS

182 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

477 FPS

237 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

207 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

98 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

74 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

233 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

62 FPS

82 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

191% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6837 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

4050.95 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

212685 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

238996 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1855 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2500 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

Identical

24 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

960 GB/s

2% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

1% slightly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

152% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

72% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

72% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

70% significantly more shading units

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

384

17% slightly 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

3rd 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 XTX specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 24 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly lower TDP at 350 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090.