NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 7900 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 - 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).

NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 2070 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 2580 MHz vs 2394 MHz
Around 43% higher pipelines: 7680 vs 5376
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 20 GB
Around 17% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 198250 vs 169526

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 Aug 2023 vs 3 Nov 2022
Core clock speed	2070 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2580 MHz vs 2394 MHz
Pipelines	7680 vs 5376
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 300 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 20 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	198250 vs 169526

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 619.2 GTexel/s
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1196 vs 1109
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28912 vs 28019

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s vs 619.2 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1196 vs 1109
PassMark - G3D Mark	28912 vs 28019

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1109

1196

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

28019

28912

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

198250

169526

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	1109	1196
PassMark - G3D Mark	28019	28912
Geekbench - OpenCL	198250	169526
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		27355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 3.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 31
Launch date	9 Aug 2023	3 Nov 2022
Place in performance rating	13	15
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2580 MHz	2394 MHz
Core clock speed	2070 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	5 nm
Pipelines	7680	5376
Pixel fill rate	206.4 GPixel/s	459.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	619.2 GTexel/s	804.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	57700 million
Compute units		84
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		3.218 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		103.0 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		51.48 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	245 mm, 9.6 inches	276 mm, 10.9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches	135 mm, 5.3 inches
Height		51 mm, 2 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	20 GB
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	800.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	320 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6