NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 541.95
$ 188.04 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points
20954 points
72% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS
421 FPS
132 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
302 FPS
161 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS
380 FPS
174 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS
172 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points
7249 points
87% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
3144.45 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
160380 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points
194640 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz
2970 MHz
22% 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
380.2 Gigapixels/s
95% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
39% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
128
60% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586
8th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 4070 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070.

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