NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9070

Price

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$ 541.95

$ 67.74 slightly less expensive

$ 609.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

15011 points

23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

308 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

225 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

291 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

138 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

6282 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

2743.15 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

135343 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

167848 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2520 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

640 GB/s

77% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

322.6 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

36.1 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

60% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 590

18th of 590

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

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 9070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 9070 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.