AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 679.99

$ 541.95

$ 138.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19220 points

57% significantly better overall score

12174 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

394 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

289 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

156 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

206 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

159 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

114 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

297 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

140 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

181 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

117 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

103 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

66 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

124 FPS

135 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

231 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

226 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

174 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

115 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

142 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

95 FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

102 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS

47 FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

203 FPS

258 FPS

55 FPS slightly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

159 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

79 FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

119 FPS

26 FPS slightly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

93 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5616 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

5402.96 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

2190 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

2430 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

20 GiB

66% significantly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

800 GB/s

122% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

315 W

300 W

5% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

194.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

810 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

544.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

54.07 TFLOPS

55% significantly better floating point performance

34.84 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

12288

71% significantly more shading units

7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

242% significantly more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

139% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 597

31st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 7900 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070.