AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Nvidia RTX 4500 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 4500 Ada (62/100), 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 4500 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 61.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 192-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 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 4500 Ada
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Fire Strike 48036
Port Royal 12733
Solar Bay 85186
Time Spy 19814
Wild Life Extreme 40308

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 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 4500 Ada
1080p High 180
1080p Ultra 151
1440p Ultra 118
4K Ultra 69
CoD: Modern Warfare III 17015912280
Counter-Strike 2 27421315183
Cyberpunk 2077 1481328643
Far Cry 6 15813912678
Forza Horizon 5 18812511589
Ghost of Tsushima 116978449
Hogwarts Legacy 1321088545
Margin of Error High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23721916991
The Witcher 3 20117012866

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 47003
Face Detection (HP) 42820
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 11193
Image Segmentation (HP) 20124
Image Super Resolution (Q) 34904
Machine Translation (HP) 4268
Object Detection (SP) 13068
Pose Estimation (Q) 149991
Style Transfer (SP) 300643
Text Classification (SP) 3789

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
API OpenCL
Background Blur 309.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 9.94 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 198.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 7.42 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 31078.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 1060 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename AD103
Launch price (MSRP) $2250
Purpose Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above
Released August 23, 2023
Segment High-end
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Base Clock 2070 MHz
Boost Clock 2580 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 60
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 60
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80
Shading Units 7680
Tensor Cores 240
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
DirectX 11 259 FPS
DirectX 12 90 FPS
G2D Mark 1161
GPU Compute 16769 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Die Size 379 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 210 W
Transistor Count 45 billion
Transistor Density 118.73 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 206 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 619 GTexel/s

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