NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 VS AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

nvidia

Brand

24GB GDDR6X

Memory

16384

Cores

1010 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 4090

N/A Sep 2022 View Details

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

4096

Cores

644.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599.99 Mar 2025 View Details

$599.99

$629.99

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24GB GDDR6X 450W N/A Sep 2022

GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 • Sep 2022

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599 • Mar 2025

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

16GB GDDR6 304W $599.99 Mar 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Memory Size	24 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6X	GDDR6
TDP	450 W	304 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2970 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	1010 GB/s	644.6 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	4nm
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 4.0
Shading Units	16384	4096
RT Cores	128	64
TMUs	512	256
ROPs	176	128
Memory Bus	384-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1313 MHz	2518 MHz
Pixel Rate	443.5 GPixel/s	380.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	1.01 GTexel/s	760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	82.58 GFLOPS	48.66 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	72.00 MB	8.00 MB
Die Size	609 mm²	357 mm²
Transistors	76300 Million	53900 Million
Required PSU	850 W	700 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 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 (+57%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

26809

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

316301 (+73%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

182816

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

615.9 FPS (+97%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

313.3 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

38309 (+43%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

26815

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Game Benchmarks Comparison (228 benchmarks)

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 9070 XT

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+27%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+33%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 58 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 (+12%)

AVG 180 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 161 FPS

MIN 143 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 4090 (+14%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 137 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 4090 (+20%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 80 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 (+37%)

AVG 276 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 202 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+49%)

AVG 248 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 167 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+48%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

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

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+67%)

AVG 281 FPS

MIN 236 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 168 FPS

MIN 138 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+94%)

AVG 258 FPS

MIN 219 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 133 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+111%)

AVG 177 FPS

MIN 147 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

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

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+23%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 139 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+26%)

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+39%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assetto Corsa Rally

8.1 2025 • Racing • Supernova Games Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+11%)

AVG 141 FPS

MIN 120 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+19%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+29%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 231 benchmarks across 66 games

112

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090

+33.3%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT