GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 9070

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 9070 (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Radeon RX 9070
Radeon

Radeon RX 9070

62/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 66.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Fire Strike 72432 60053
Night Raid 195813 177554
Port Royal 26127 15939
Solar Bay 187525 106118
Time Spy 36299 26693
Wild Life Extreme 85218 48323

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
CUDA 8.9 No
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1a
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 9070
1080p High 255 213
1080p Ultra 217 178
1440p Ultra 177 139
4K Ultra 106 82
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 219212157107
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 30721515884
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 17414910247
Far Cry 6 203179170104 19216314895
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 229156137102
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 14612210565
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 1461199752
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 26224818899
The Witcher 3 292268191101 24021615984

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 66890
Face Detection (HP) 78111 67858
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 15375
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 37834
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 43910
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 8499
Object Detection (SP) 21186 15393
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 172939
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 365633
Text Classification (SP) 4074 4469

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 377.5 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 8.99 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 221.3 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 8.52 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 6.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 8521.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 606 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 4.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 48
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $549
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent — -GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1330 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 56
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 4 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 128
Shading Units 16384 3584
Tensor Cores 512 112
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 224

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 20100 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2518 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
DirectX 11 323 FPS 280 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 73 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1263
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 14791 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Die Size 609 mm² 356.5 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 220 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 53.9 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 151.19 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 323 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 564 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 9070
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —

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