AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 7900M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900M

Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 2090 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 601.9 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Boost clock speed	2090 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate	601.9 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.1x more pipelines: 9728 vs 4608
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 180 Watt
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 976 vs 945
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27541 vs 23273
Around 51% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 179576 vs 118813

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 19 Oct 2023
Pipelines	9728 vs 4608
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 180 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	976 vs 945
PassMark - G3D Mark	27541 vs 23273
Geekbench - OpenCL	179576 vs 118813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

945

976

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

23273

27541

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

118813

179576

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7900M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	945	976
PassMark - G3D Mark	23273	27541
Geekbench - OpenCL	118813	179576
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4908

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7900M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 31	AD103
Launch date	19 Oct 2023	2023
Place in performance rating	34	35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2090 MHz	1695 MHz
Compute units	72
Core clock speed	1825 MHz	1335 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Pipelines	4608	9728
Pixel fill rate	267.5 GPixel/s	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	601.9 GTexel/s	515.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million	45900 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		32.98 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	576.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6