AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

4096

Cores

644.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599.99 Mar 2025 View Details

$629.99

nvidia

Brand

24GB GDDR6X

Memory

16384

Cores

1010 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 4090

$2,591.99 Sep 2022 View Details

$2,591.99

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

16GB GDDR6 304W $599.99 Mar 2025

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599 • Mar 2025

GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 • Sep 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24GB GDDR6X 450W $2,591.99 Sep 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Memory Size	16 GB	24 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	304 W	450 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2970 MHz	2520 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	644.6 GB/s	1010 GB/s
Process Size	4nm	5nm
Architecture	RDNA 4.0	Ada Lovelace
Shading Units	4096	16384
RT Cores	64	128
TMUs	256	512
ROPs	128	176
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	2518 MHz	1313 MHz
Pixel Rate	380.2 GPixel/s	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	760.3 GTexel/s	1.01 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	48.66 GFLOPS	82.58 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	8.00 MB	72.00 MB
Die Size	357 mm²	609 mm²
Transistors	53900 Million	76300 Million
Required PSU	700 W	850 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

26809

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

42193 (+57%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

182816

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

316301 (+73%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

313.3 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

615.9 FPS (+97%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

26815

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

38309 (+43%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Background

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+5%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 57 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+36%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+48%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 164 FPS

MIN 156 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+19%)

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 151 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+28%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+48%)

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+57%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+72%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+4%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 156 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 152 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 157 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+7%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+12%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+6%)

AVG 137 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+21%)

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+45%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+37%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+42%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+76%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 255 benchmarks across 72 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

+32.3%

112

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090