NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Price

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$ 541.95

$ 539.99

$ 1.96 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

18321 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

374 FPS

85 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

261 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

344 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

151 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

4804 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

2797.04 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168118 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

186034 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

2245 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

576 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

260 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

46 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586

12th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 vs Radeon RX 7900 GRE comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE beats the GeForce RTX 4070 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has a slightly lower TDP at 260 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.