AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4070
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
AD104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB with 6144 shaders against the 5 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- Performs significantly better (up to 65%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (61.4 vs 29.1 TFLOPS)
- Shows 50% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 159 vs 106 FPS
- Includes 12 GB more video memory
- Has 90% higher memory bandwidth: 960 vs 504 GB/s
- Achieves 34% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (224K vs 167K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 253 175 156 122 |
172 115 102 79 |
| The Witcher 3 | 280 251 177 96 |
194 159 114 61 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 333 227 166 85 |
272 205 149 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | 212 181 170 109 |
149 133 115 68 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 167 143 113 64 |
117 97 77 39 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 264 251 192 128 |
149 145 107 69 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 168 140 122 77 |
106 88 72 43 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 203 181 126 59 |
129 119 75 37 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 302 274 208 112 |
211 190 145 80 |
| 1080p High | 242 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 203 | 139 |
| 1440p Ultra | 159 | 106 |
| 4K Ultra | 95 | 62 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 30804 | 17799 |
| Solar Bay | 123985 | 82861 |
| Port Royal | 16759 | 11156 |
| Fire Strike | 73279 | 44067 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 58739 | 35472 |
| Night Raid | 183191 | 153385 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 423.9 img/sec | 233 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 270.8 img/sec | 141.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.23 Gpixels/sec | 6.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 13.7 Gpixels/sec | 9.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.1 Gpixels/sec | 9.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.74 Gpixels/sec | 1.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 871 Gpixels/sec | 845.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29891.2 FPS | 25043.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1290 | 1165 |
| DirectX 11 | 355 FPS | 243 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 134 FPS | 103 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 17777 Ops/s | 14561 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-14 (kashitsu) | Cinebench 2024 | 18051 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 18608 | 10246 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25385 | 26153 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45641 | 32054 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71321 | 51337 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 257258 | 124617 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5240 | 3703 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7425 | 5484 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 21335 | 13134 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66140 | 50548 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 483867 | 263477 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 3, 2022 | April 13, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | AD104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 | - Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 30th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1929 MHz | 1920 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2498 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 384 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 96 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 36MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 480 GPixel/s | 158 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 959 GTexel/s | 455 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 355 W | 200 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57 billion | 35 billion |
| Transistor Density | 107.75 MTr/mm² | 119.05 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2500 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 384-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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