NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 300 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 28 Oct 2020
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1395 MHz
  • Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 720.0 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4608
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1047 vs 763
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26796 vs 19552
  • Around 53% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 164019 vs 107349
  • Around 68% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 20957 vs 12488
  • Around 70% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 543.753 vs 319.688
  • Around 41% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 51.155 vs 36.174
  • Around 46% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 320.733 vs 218.946
  • Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 2566.9 vs 1585.54
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed 2250 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate 720.0 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 4608
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1047 vs 763
PassMark - G3D Mark 26796 vs 19552
Geekbench - OpenCL 164019 vs 107349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 20957 vs 12488
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 543.753 vs 319.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 51.155 vs 36.174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 320.733 vs 218.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2566.9 vs 1585.54

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
763
1047
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
19552
26796
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
107349
164019
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
12488
20957
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
319.688
543.753
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
36.174
51.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
218.946
320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1585.54
2566.9
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 763 1047
PassMark - G3D Mark 19552 26796
Geekbench - OpenCL 107349 164019
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 12488 20957
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 319.688 543.753
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 36.174 51.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 218.946 320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1585.54 2566.9
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 0
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 2.0
Code name AD106 Navi 21
Launch date 2023 28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating 79 76
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 2250 MHz
Core clock speed 1395 MHz 1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 244.1 GFLOPS (1:64) 1440 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.62 TFLOPS (1:1) 46.08 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.62 TFLOPS 23.04 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4608 5120
Pixel fill rate 81.36 GPixel/s 288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 244.1 GTexel/s 720.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 300 Watt
Compute units 80
Transistor count 26800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Triple-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6