NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 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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$ 541.95

$ 321.68 significantly less expensive

$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

24876 points

104% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

529 FPS

240 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

350 FPS

209 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

477 FPS

271 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

207 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

117 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

74 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

42 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

115 FPS

233 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

47 FPS

57 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

93 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

70 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

118 FPS

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

82 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

6837 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

4050.95 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

212685 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

238996 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1855 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2500 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

960 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

18% slightly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

76% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

76% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

16% slightly more shading units

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

384

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

139% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 597

3rd of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2022 December

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

Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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