AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

  • Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 626.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 90% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1217 vs 1198
  • Around 12% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5623 vs 5024
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 804.4 GTexel/s vs 626.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 20 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1217 vs 1198
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5623 vs 5024

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • Around 54% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 2394 MHz
  • Around 43% higher pipelines: 7680 vs 5376
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
  • Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 285 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 31655 vs 28850
  • Around 21% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 205069 vs 169572
  • 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 939.363 vs 343.519
  • Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 67.426 vs 60.185
  • Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 348.259 vs 320.733
  • Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 2895.895 vs 2714.187
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Jan 2023 vs 3 Nov 2022
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2610 MHz vs 2394 MHz
Pipelines 7680 vs 5376
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 5 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 285 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 31655 vs 28850
Geekbench - OpenCL 205069 vs 169572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 939.363 vs 343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 67.426 vs 60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 348.259 vs 320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2895.895 vs 2714.187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1217
1198
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28850
31655
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
5623
5024
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
169572
205069
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
343.519
939.363
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
60.185
67.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
320.733
348.259
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2714.187
2895.895
Name AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 1217 1198
PassMark - G3D Mark 28850 31655
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5623 5024
Geekbench - OpenCL 169572 205069
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 343.519 939.363
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 60.185 67.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 320.733 348.259
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2714.187 2895.895

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
Code name Navi 31 AD104
Launch date 3 Nov 2022 3 Jan 2023
Place in performance rating 17 8

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2394 MHz 2610 MHz
Compute units 84
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.218 TFLOPS (1:16) 626.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 103.0 TFLOPS (2:1) 40.09 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 51.48 TFLOPS 40.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5376 7680
Pixel fill rate 459.6 GPixel/s 208.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 804.4 GTexel/s 626.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 285 Watt
Transistor count 57700 million 35800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 51 mm, 2 inches 42 mm, 1.7 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 276 mm, 10.9 inches 285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 16-pin
Width 135 mm, 5.3 inches 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 800.0 GB/s 504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 320 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X