AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 4090
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AMD Radeon RX 9070
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
AD102
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months older GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB that utilizes 128 pipelines and 16384 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 9070
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090
- Performs significantly better (up to 85%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (82.6 vs 36.1 TFLOPS)
- Shows 27% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 177 vs 139 FPS
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 229 156 137 102 |
275 199 193 155 |
| The Witcher 3 | 240 216 159 84 |
292 268 191 101 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 307 215 158 84 |
339 238 188 90 |
| Far Cry 6 | 192 163 148 95 |
203 179 170 104 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 146 119 97 52 |
200 163 132 74 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 219 212 157 107 |
266 263 219 151 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 146 122 105 65 |
188 152 137 91 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 174 149 102 47 |
226 208 143 66 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 262 248 188 99 |
302 284 222 118 |
| 1080p High | 213 | 255 |
| 1080p Ultra | 178 | 217 |
| 1440p Ultra | 139 | 177 |
| 4K Ultra | 82 | 106 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 26693 | 36299 |
| Solar Bay | 106118 | 187525 |
| Port Royal | 15939 | 26127 |
| Fire Strike | 60053 | 72432 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 48323 | 85218 |
| Night Raid | 177554 | 195813 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 377.5 img/sec | 318.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 221.3 img/sec | 222.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.4 Gpixels/sec | 14.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.99 Gpixels/sec | 21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 8.52 Gpixels/sec | 23.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.36 Gpixels/sec | 2.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 606 Gpixels/sec | 1950 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 8521.2 FPS | 48090.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1262 | 1303 |
| DirectX 11 | 280 FPS | 323 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 73 FPS | 151 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14799 Ops/s | 25991 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9070
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4090
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-06 (Devansh) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 394674 |
| 📘 2026-10-06 (Devansh) | Geekbench 7 OpenCL | 338129 |
| 📘 2026-04-03 (afroman420IU) | Cinebench 2024 | 32578 |
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) | 15375 | 15600 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 37834 | 36657 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 43910 | 48114 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 67858 | 78111 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 172939 | 289639 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4469 | 4074 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 8499 | 6349 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15393 | 21186 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66890 | 75599 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 365633 | 601428 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 4090General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | September 20, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | $1599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 48 | AD102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5070 | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5090 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i9 14900K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 3rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1330 MHz | 2235 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2520 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 16384 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 224 | 512 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 176 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 56 | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | 512 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 56 | 128 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 72MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 323 GPixel/s | 444 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 564 GTexel/s | 1290 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 220 W | 450 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 357 mm² | 609 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 53.9 billion | 76.3 billion |
| Transistor Density | 150.98 MTr/mm² | 125.29 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 2625 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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