AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 1395.02 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

33119 points

357% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

787 FPS

639 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

382 FPS

274 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

567 FPS

435 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

318 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9236 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

11723.75 points

673% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

318192 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

273214 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

2235 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

1010 GB/s

163% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

95% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

192% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

212% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

525% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

16384

540% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

512

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586

2nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 4090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the Radeon RX 6700 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 230 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT.