NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 XTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 2070 MHz vs 1855 MHz
Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2580 MHz vs 2499 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 7680 vs 6144
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 355 Watt
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 197949 vs 187407

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 Aug 2023 vs 3 Nov 2022
Core clock speed	2070 MHz vs 1855 MHz
Boost clock speed	2580 MHz vs 2499 MHz
Pipelines	7680 vs 6144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 355 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	197949 vs 187407

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Around 55% higher texture fill rate: 959.6 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 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1229 vs 1113
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 31067 vs 29978

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	959.6 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	1229 vs 1113
PassMark - G3D Mark	31067 vs 29978

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1113

1229

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

29978

31067

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

197949

187407

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
PassMark - G2D Mark	1113	1229
PassMark - G3D Mark	29978	31067
Geekbench - OpenCL	197949	187407
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		30727
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		492.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		14101.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		65.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		461.69
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2659.85

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 3.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 31
Launch date	9 Aug 2023	3 Nov 2022
Place in performance rating	12	8
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2580 MHz	2499 MHz
Core clock speed	2070 MHz	1855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	5 nm
Pipelines	7680	6144
Pixel fill rate	206.4 GPixel/s	479.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	619.2 GTexel/s	959.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	355 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	57700 million
Compute units		96
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		3.838 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		122.8 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		61.42 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	287 mm, 11.3 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	750 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	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	960.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6