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

$3,390.00

$2,591.99

amd

Brand

24GB GDDR6

Memory

6144

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$799.99 Nov 2022 View Details

$799.99

$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 (519 benchmarks)

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

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+20%)

AVG 147 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+29%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+38%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories Background

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories

8 2025 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Bordeaux

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 180 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 145 FPS

MIN 125 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 4090 (+27%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 4090 (+24%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Winner

Loser

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy Background

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

8.5 2025 • Action, Strategy • Relic Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+41%)

AVG 276 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 196 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+47%)

AVG 248 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+37%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Fire & Frost

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+49%)

AVG 281 FPS

MIN 236 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 189 FPS

MIN 166 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+65%)

AVG 258 FPS

MIN 219 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+74%)

AVG 177 FPS

MIN 147 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 102 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG, Free To Play • Everstone Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+26%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 154 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+21%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+27%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 522 benchmarks across 148 games

130

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

+25.6%

103

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX