GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 7700 XT (49/100), 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 7700 XT
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 45.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Fire Strike 72432 42722
Night Raid 195813 147320
Port Royal 26127 9114
Solar Bay 187525 65104
Time Spy 36299 17109
Wild Life Extreme 85218 30428

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
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 7700 XT
1080p High 255 161
1080p Ultra 217 133
1440p Ultra 177 99
4K Ultra 106 57
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 14814310264
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 26819513474
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 1151036531
Far Cry 6 203179170104 14513111063
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 1861179670
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 111907344
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 106896939
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 19217613067
The Witcher 3 292268191101 17915211361

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 49197
Face Detection (HP) 78111 35311
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 11284
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 14150
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 27972
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 4471
Object Detection (SP) 21186 12084
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 142235
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 301429
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3836

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 285.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 6.66 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 181.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.18 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 5.68 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 4.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 19410.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 493 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 32
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $449
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 13700Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 September 6, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 -Radeon RX 9070
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1435 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2544 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 4 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 54
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 96
Shading Units 16384 3456
Tensor Cores 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 216

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Bus 384-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 12 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
DirectX 11 323 FPS 232 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 83 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1157
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 12980 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Die Size 609 mm² 346 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 245 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 28 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 80.92 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 244 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 550 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7700 XT
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-05-17(MadDog9912) GeekBench

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