NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 1299.99

$ 679.99

$ 620.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points

1% slightly better overall score

19220 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS

87 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

393 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS

273 FPS

48 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS

362 FPS

28 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS

25 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

158 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

170 FPS

297 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

73 FPS

153 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

127 FPS

181 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

42 FPS

103 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

124 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

61 FPS

231 FPS

170 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

81 FPS

174 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

86 FPS

142 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

83 FPS

156 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Need for Speed Unbound FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

90 FPS

135 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Need for Speed Unbound FPS

The Callisto Protocol FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

53 FPS

170 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher The Callisto Protocol FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points

146% significantly higher Blender score

3540.90 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

187759 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

213258 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1800 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz

2400 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

20 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s

800 GB/s

17% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W

315 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

101% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

48.64 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

12288

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

768

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 4080 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 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 XT has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has slightly more memory with 20 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 315 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the Radeon RX 7900 XT.

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