AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 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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$ 679.99

$ 50.00 slightly less expensive

$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19220 points

20741 points

7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

394 FPS

418 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

295 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

379 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

159 FPS

170 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5616 points

7249 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

3144.45 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

160380 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

194640 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

2970 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

20 GiB

25% slightly 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

800 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

640 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

380.2 Gigapixels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

54.07 TFLOPS

11% slightly 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

10th of 597

8th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

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 Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 XT beats the Radeon RX 7900 XT in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has slightly more memory with 20 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the Radeon RX 7900 XT.