AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4090

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100), 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 GeForce RTX 4090
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 43.0 Poor
Gaming 93.0 Excellent

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

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

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 4090
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

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

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 4090
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 GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 255
1080p Ultra 217
1440p Ultra 177
4K Ultra 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366
Far Cry 6 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118
The Witcher 3 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

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

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

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

General

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

Graphics Processing Unit

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

Passmark Graphics

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

Physical

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

Raw Performance

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

Recent User Tests

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

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