GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 7900 XTX (77/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 43.0 Poor
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 81.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Fire Strike 72432 73279
Night Raid 195813 183191
Port Royal 26127 16759
Solar Bay 187525 123985
Time Spy 36299 30804
Wild Life Extreme 85218 58739

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
CUDA 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
1080p High 255 242
1080p Ultra 217 203
1440p Ultra 177 159
4K Ultra 106 95
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 264251192128
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 33322716685
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 20318112659
Far Cry 6 203179170104 212181170109
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 253175156122
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 16814012277
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 16714311364
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 302274208112
The Witcher 3 292268191101 28025117796

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 66140
Face Detection (HP) 78111 71321
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 18608
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 25385
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 45641
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 7425
Object Detection (SP) 21186 21335
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 257258
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 483867
Text Classification (SP) 4074 5240

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 423.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 270.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.74 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 11.1 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 9.23 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 29891.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 871 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 31
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 13700Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 November 3, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1929 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2498 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 4 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 256KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 6MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 16384 6144
Tensor Cores 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 384

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Bus 384-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 20000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
DirectX 11 323 FPS 355 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 133 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1289
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 17772 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Die Size 609 mm² 529 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 355 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 57 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 107.75 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 480 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 959 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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