AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 629.99
$ 143.50 slightly less expensive
$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
16263 points
15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
383 FPS
97 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
20 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
188 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
278 FPS
22 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
154 FPS
32 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

55 FPS
65 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS
Far Cry 6 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

82 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS
74 FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

69 FPS
84 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

76 FPS
84 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

34 FPS
69 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS
72 FPS
Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

39 FPS
85 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
5035 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
6656.46 points
168% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
205515 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
188957 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
2310 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2610 MHz
16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
33% slightly more memory
12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
1% slightly higher memory bandwidth
504.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
285 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
37% slightly higher pixel rate
208.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
14% slightly higher texture rate
626.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
74% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
7680
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
33% slightly more texture mapping units
240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
60% significantly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586
15th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6900 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 285 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 4070 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT.

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