GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 7900M

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 7900M (51/100), 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 7900M
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 45.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 53.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Fire Strike 72432 41648
Night Raid 195813 154612
Port Royal 26127 10135
Solar Bay 187525 78139
Time Spy 36299 17931
Wild Life Extreme 85218 35258

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
CUDA 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
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 7900M
1080p High 255 171
1080p Ultra 217 141
1440p Ultra 177 106
4K Ultra 106 62
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 15915611170
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 28319714079
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 1231107333
Far Cry 6 203179170104 15413911872
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 19412410777
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 119997848
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 114957238
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 20318313571
The Witcher 3 292268191101 19216912366

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 45969
Face Detection (HP) 78111 31918
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 11249
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 13771
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 30143
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 3734
Object Detection (SP) 21186 12629
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 163344
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 303544
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3882

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 305.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 8.19 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 201.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.32 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 6.77 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 5.87 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 22269 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 540.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 31
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 13700HXor above
Released September 20, 2022 October 19, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1825 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2090 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 72
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 16384 4608
Tensor Cores 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 288

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
DirectX 11 323 FPS 258 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 97 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 888
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 9066 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
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 180 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 57.7 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 109.07 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 7900M
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 401 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 602 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

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

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