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 (600 benchmarks)

SILENT HILL: Townfall

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Screen Burn

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 159 FPS

MIN 133 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+35%)

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 100 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+35%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 159 FPS

MIN 133 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+35%)

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 100 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+35%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

CONTROL Resonant

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Remedy Entertainment

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+53%)

AVG 153 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+47%)

AVG 110 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+49%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Blood of Dawnwalker

7 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Rebel Wolves

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+5%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+20%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+20%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Winner

Loser

Onimusha: Way of the Sword

8 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+25%)

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 146 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+32%)

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+38%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Background

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

7 2026 • Action, Adventure • Asobo Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+36%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 173 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 143 FPS

MIN 125 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+35%)

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 129 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+40%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

Winner

Loser

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Background

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta

8 2026 • Action • Infinity Ward, Beenox, Digital Legends, Activision Shanghai, Raven Software, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+88%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+77%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+93%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 603 benchmarks across 168 games

126

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

+25.7%

100

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX