NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 VS AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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

Brand

24GB GDDR6

Memory

6144

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$799.99 Nov 2022 View Details

$890.60

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24GB GDDR6X 450W $2,591.99 Sep 2022

GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 • Sep 2022

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$999 • Nov 2022

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

24GB GDDR6 355W $799.99 Nov 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Memory Size	24 GB	24 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6X	GDDR6
TDP	450 W	355 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2498 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	1010 GB/s	960 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	5nm
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 3.0
Shading Units	16384	6144
RT Cores	128	96
TMUs	512	384
ROPs	176	192
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	1313 MHz	2500 MHz
Pixel Rate	443.5 GPixel/s	479.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	1.01 GTexel/s	960 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	82.58 GFLOPS	61.39 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	72.00 MB	6.00 MB
Die Size	609 mm²	529 mm²
Transistors	76300 Million	57700 Million
Required PSU	850 W	750 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 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

42193 (+41%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

29863

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

316301 (+41%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

224686

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

615.9 FPS (+52%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

405.4 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

38309 (+23%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

31100

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Game Benchmarks Comparison (540 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 7900 XTX

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+17%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+17%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+39%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+49%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+59%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+11%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 157 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+19%)

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 151 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4090 (+29%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+41%)

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+54%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+62%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

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

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 156 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+29%)

AVG 157 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+37%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+10%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+4%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+18%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

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

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+15%)

AVG 137 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+26%)

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4090 (+42%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 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 (+44%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+53%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+51%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 543 benchmarks across 153 games

129

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

+25.5%

103

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX