NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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

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$ 1819.99
$ 729.99
$ 1090.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points
58% significantly better overall score
20954 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS
366 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
421 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS
80 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
302 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS
187 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
380 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS
146 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
172 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7249 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points
272% significantly higher Blender score
3144.45 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
160380 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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 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

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 XT comparison

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

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

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