NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Price

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$ 1819.99

$ 729.99

$ 1090.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33202 points

60% significantly better overall score

20741 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

788 FPS

370 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

418 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS

87 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

295 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

568 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

379 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

170 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7249 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points

272% significantly higher Blender score

3144.45 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

160380 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

194640 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

2970 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

27% slightly higher pixel rate

380.2 Gigapixels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS

69% significantly better floating point performance

48.7 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 597

8th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

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 4090 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 9070 XT in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the Radeon RX 9070 XT.