NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
vs
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and has 16384 texture shaders and 128 execution units.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is based on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which has 6144 shaders and 96 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Based on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AD102-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 31
Ada Lovelace Architecture RDNA 3
128 Streaming Multiprocessors 96
16384 Shader 6144
176 Render Output Units 192
512 Texture Units 384
128 Raytracing Cores 96

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has 24 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX can access 24 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 960 GB/s.

24 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 2.500 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 20.0 Gbps
1008 GB/s Memory bandwidth 960 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 2.235 GHz. The base frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 1.900 GHz.

2.235 GHz Base Clock 1.900 GHz
2.520 GHz Boost Clock 2.500 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.30 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 450 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a TDP of 355 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

450 W TDP 355 W
450 W TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
39 dB Noise (Load) 40 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v2.1
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 304 mm long, 137 mm high and 61 mm wide.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 287 mm long, 123 mm high and 51 mm wide.

304 mm Length 287 mm
137 mm Height 123 mm
61 mm Width 51 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition was released in Q4/2022 at a price of 1,599 $ (Reference).

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX was introduced in Q4/2022 at a price of 999 $.

-- Part-no --
Q4/2022 Release date Q4/2022
1,599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 999 $
5 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
93 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
71 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
185 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
103 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
195 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
133 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
80 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
52 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
142 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
95 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
24 GB GDDR6X
184 fps (avg)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
142 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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