NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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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Price

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$ 1819.99
$ 609.69
$ 1210.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points
134% significantly better overall score
14149 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS
495 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
291 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS
165 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
217 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS
289 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
278 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS
184 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
134 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points
47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points
327% significantly higher Blender score
2743.15 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
167848 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz
Identical
2520 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB
49% significantly more memory
16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1010 GB/s
57% significantly higher memory bandwidth
640 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s
49% significantly higher pixel rate
322.6 Gigapixels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS
128% significantly better floating point performance
36.1 TFLOPS

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192
49% significantly more render output processors
128

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
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 4090 vs Radeon RX 9070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 9070 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the Radeon RX 9070.

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