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GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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Key Differences

  • RTX 4090 is 19% faster than RX 7900 XTX (24 measured runs at 4K, 1440p and 1080p).
  • RTX 4090 has the most memory bandwidth: 1,010 GB/s against 960.0 GB/s.
  • RX 7900 XTX draws the least power: 355 W against 450 W.
  • Core counts are not comparable across these architectures.
Spec GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD
Overview
Product name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
4Kgaming performance 87.3 FPS 75.6 FPS 1% low 8 games 69.7 FPS 60.9 FPS 1% low 8 games
1440pgaming performance 141 FPS 117 FPS 1% low 8 games 120 FPS 104 FPS 1% low 8 games
1080pgaming performance 192 FPS 158 FPS 1% low 8 games 171 FPS 143 FPS 1% low 8 games
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 3
Generation / family GeForce RTX 40 Series Radeon RX 7000 Series
GPU codename AD102 Navi 31 XTX
Launch date 2022-10-12 2022-12-13
Launch MSRP Unknown 999
Market segment Desktop, Flagship in GeForce RTX 40 Series Desktop, Enthusiast
Board type / entry type Reference GPU Reference GPU
GPU
Process node TSMC 5 nm 5 nm GCD / 6 nm MCD
Die size 609 mm² 529 mm²
Transistor count 76.3 billion 57700 million
GPU chip AD102 Navi 31
SM / multiprocessor count 128 96
Shader processors Raw counts do not scale linearly across architectures or generations. 16384 CUDA Cores 6144 Stream Processors
AI units Dedicated AI silicon differs significantly across vendors. Not directly comparable. 512 Tensor Cores Unknown AI Accelerators
RT units Dedicated RT unit counts do not scale the same way across vendors. 128 RT Cores 96 Ray Accelerators
ROPs 176 192
TMUs 512 384
Clocks
Base / Core clock 2,235 MHz 1855 MHz
Boost clock 2,520 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory clock 1,313 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory
Memory size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR6
Memory bus width 384-bit 384-bit
Memory bandwidth 1,010 GB/s 960.0 GB/s
Bus / Interface
Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
AGP / PCI / PCIe distinction PCIe PCIe
Power
TDP / TBP / board power 450 W 355 W
Recommended PSU 850 W 800 W
Power connectors 1x PCIe Gen 5 16-pin 2x 8-pin
Slot width Triple-slot, 304 mm length, 61 mm width Dual-slot
Display / Media
Display outputs 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
Features
DirectX support DirectX 12.2 DirectX 12 Ultimate
OpenGL support OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan support Vulkan 1.4 Vulkan 1.3
CUDA support 8.9 Not applicable
Shader Model 6.8 6.8
Ray tracing support Hardware RT units present Hardware RT units present
Performance / Benchmarks
FP32 throughput 82.58 TFLOPS 61.44 TFLOPS
FP16 throughput 82.58 TFLOPS 122.8 TFLOPS
Muted cells indicate unavailable, not applicable, or not directly comparable specifications.

Frame rates compare runs of the same game at the same quality preset on one test system. DLAA counts as native resolution, because it applies anti-aliasing at full render resolution rather than upscaling; DLSS and FSR upscaling are never counted as native. Where a capture named ray tracing without a readable on or off value, it is read as on.

Measured game results

Gaming benchmarks

Reviewed FPS from games these cards were measured on under one shared test system and resolution. Every game is compared against itself, so each result is a like-for-like pair. These results are separate from theoretical compute specifications.

4K

GeForce RTX 4090 is 25% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

  1. GeForce RTX 4090 100%
  2. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 79.9% (-20%)

Relative gaming performance, fastest at 100%. Geometric mean across 8 games measured on every card.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, DDR5-6000 MHz RAM

Per-game comparison at 4K
Game GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Alan Wake 2 High 72 FPS 1% low 60 FPS 60 FPS 1% low 52 FPS
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Ultra 57 FPS 1% low 49 FPS 44 FPS 1% low 38 FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 75 FPS 1% low 61 FPS 64 FPS 1% low 56 FPS
Forza Horizon 6 Ultra 111 FPS 1% low 99 FPS 90 FPS 1% low 74 FPS
Hogwarts Legacy Ultra 92 FPS 1% low 87 FPS 84 FPS 1% low 72 FPS
Pragmata Ultra 103 FPS 1% low 100 FPS 81 FPS 1% low 79 FPS
Red Dead Redemption II Ultra 130 FPS 1% low 106 FPS 98 FPS 1% low 86 FPS
Resident Evil Requiem Ultra 80 FPS 1% low 65 FPS 55 FPS 1% low 47 FPS
Settings, methodology and sources

NVIDIA Club reports reviewed numbers extracted from source video evidence. It does not claim a controlled lab environment. Each game is compared only against itself under one identical condition on every card, so a set may span quality presets while every individual comparison stays exact. A game measured at more than one preset contributes once. Upscaling techniques differ between vendors and are recorded per game rather than treated as a shared setting.

Alan Wake 2
High, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Cyberpunk 2077
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Forza Horizon 6
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Hogwarts Legacy
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Pragmata
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Red Dead Redemption II
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Resident Evil Requiem
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES , source page
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES , source page

Advanced provenance

Memory transfer rate
6000 MT/s
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES
7a3e1205e83bd722195c37e4c3bfea3df0cda09337f15d6ce06b70d40d4fae4b
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES
2e2e9f310d04e25c137f968b4feab6eefe50b11ba01f2982c2cd168b40530c37

1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 is 18% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

  1. GeForce RTX 4090 100%
  2. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 84.9% (-15%)

Relative gaming performance, fastest at 100%. Geometric mean across 8 games measured on every card.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, DDR5-6000 MHz RAM

Per-game comparison at 1440p
Game GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Alan Wake 2 High 122 FPS 1% low 93 FPS 106 FPS 1% low 91 FPS
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Ultra 73 FPS 1% low 60 FPS 58 FPS 1% low 52 FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 159 FPS 1% low 119 FPS 135 FPS 1% low 115 FPS
Forza Horizon 6 Ultra 153 FPS 1% low 129 FPS 126 FPS 1% low 95 FPS
Hogwarts Legacy Ultra 164 FPS 1% low 160 FPS 152 FPS 1% low 138 FPS
Pragmata Ultra 169 FPS 1% low 149 FPS 150 FPS 1% low 145 FPS
Red Dead Redemption II Ultra 196 FPS 1% low 163 FPS 167 FPS 1% low 153 FPS
Resident Evil Requiem Ultra 134 FPS 1% low 107 FPS 107 FPS 1% low 84 FPS
Settings, methodology and sources

NVIDIA Club reports reviewed numbers extracted from source video evidence. It does not claim a controlled lab environment. Each game is compared only against itself under one identical condition on every card, so a set may span quality presets while every individual comparison stays exact. A game measured at more than one preset contributes once. Upscaling techniques differ between vendors and are recorded per game rather than treated as a shared setting.

Alan Wake 2
High, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Cyberpunk 2077
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Forza Horizon 6
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Hogwarts Legacy
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Pragmata
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Red Dead Redemption II
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Resident Evil Requiem
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES , source page
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES , source page

Advanced provenance

Memory transfer rate
6000 MT/s
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES
7a3e1205e83bd722195c37e4c3bfea3df0cda09337f15d6ce06b70d40d4fae4b
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES
2e2e9f310d04e25c137f968b4feab6eefe50b11ba01f2982c2cd168b40530c37

1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 is 13% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

  1. GeForce RTX 4090 100%
  2. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 88.6% (-11%)

Relative gaming performance, fastest at 100%. Geometric mean across 8 games measured on every card.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, DDR5-6000 MHz RAM

Per-game comparison at 1080p
Game GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Alan Wake 2 High 166 FPS 1% low 139 FPS 164 FPS 1% low 125 FPS
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Ultra 107 FPS 1% low 86 FPS 91 FPS 1% low 77 FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 247 FPS 1% low 163 FPS 202 FPS 1% low 160 FPS
Forza Horizon 6 Ultra 187 FPS 1% low 142 FPS 160 FPS 1% low 117 FPS
Hogwarts Legacy Ultra 238 FPS 1% low 230 FPS 216 FPS 1% low 198 FPS
Pragmata Ultra 228 FPS 1% low 218 FPS 217 FPS 1% low 209 FPS
Red Dead Redemption II Ultra 234 FPS 1% low 191 FPS 203 FPS 1% low 181 FPS
Resident Evil Requiem Ultra 181 FPS 1% low 143 FPS 156 FPS 1% low 128 FPS
Settings, methodology and sources

NVIDIA Club reports reviewed numbers extracted from source video evidence. It does not claim a controlled lab environment. Each game is compared only against itself under one identical condition on every card, so a set may span quality presets while every individual comparison stays exact. A game measured at more than one preset contributes once. Upscaling techniques differ between vendors and are recorded per game rather than treated as a shared setting.

Alan Wake 2
High, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Cyberpunk 2077
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Forza Horizon 6
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Hogwarts Legacy
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Pragmata
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Red Dead Redemption II
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
Resident Evil Requiem
Ultra, Rendering Mode, Native, On
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES , source page
  • 91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES , source page

Advanced provenance

Memory transfer rate
6000 MT/s
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RTX 4090+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 20 GAMES
7a3e1205e83bd722195c37e4c3bfea3df0cda09337f15d6ce06b70d40d4fae4b
91 FPS: RX 9070 XT VS RX 7900 XTX+ Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D : TEST IN 10 GAMES
2e2e9f310d04e25c137f968b4feab6eefe50b11ba01f2982c2cd168b40530c37