AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada (73/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 44.0 Poor
Gaming 72.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Fire Strike 49922
Night Raid 139369
Port Royal 17986
Solar Bay 128428
Time Spy 18364
Wild Life Extreme 52866

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
CUDA 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
1080p High 194
1080p Ultra 163
1440p Ultra 129
4K Ultra 76
CoD: Modern Warfare III 18217613791
Counter-Strike 2 29221115886
Cyberpunk 2077 1601439948
Far Cry 6 16515313281
Forza Horizon 5 20114113298
Ghost of Tsushima 1291069359
Hogwarts Legacy 1391149251
Margin of Error High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 265241188101
The Witcher 3 21218413373

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 50352
Face Detection (HP) 43098
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9943
Image Segmentation (HP) 19696
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32252
Machine Translation (HP) 4064
Object Detection (SP) 12467
Pose Estimation (Q) 138689
Style Transfer (SP) 265482
Text Classification (SP) 2893

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
API OpenCL
Background Blur 286.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 220.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 9.93 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 41235.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1580 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $4000
Purpose Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released August 9, 2023
Segment High-end
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Base Clock 1155 MHz
Boost Clock 2550 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 100
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 100
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176
Shading Units 12800
Tensor Cores 400
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 400

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
DirectX 11 271 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS
G2D Mark 1009
GPU Compute 20730 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Die Size 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 250 W
Transistor Count 76 billion
Transistor Density 124.79 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 449 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1020 GTexel/s

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