AMD RX 7900 XTX VS NVIDIA RTX 4090 Technical Comparison
0AMD RX 7900 XTX VS NVIDIA RTX 4090 Technical Comparison
The Radeon RX 7900 XT is an enthusiast-class graphics card by AMD, launched on November 3rd, 2022. Built on the 5 nm process, and based on the Navi 31 graphics processor, in its Navi 31 XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 7900 XT. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The Navi 31 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 306 mm² and 58,000 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which uses the same GPU but has all 6144 shaders enabled, AMD has disabled some shading units on the Radeon RX 7900 XT to reach the product's target shader count. It features 5376 shading units, 336 texture mapping units, and 192 ROPs. The card also has 84 raytracing acceleration cores. AMD has paired 20 GB GDDR6 memory with the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which are connected using a 320-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1500 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2400 MHz, memory is running at 2500 MHz (20 Gbps effective).
Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT draws power from 2x 8-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 300 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C. Radeon RX 7900 XT is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface. The card's dimensions are 267 mm x 135 mm x 50 mm, and it features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 899 US Dollars.
The GeForce RTX 4090 is an enthusiast-class graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 20th, 2022. Built on the 4 nm process, and based on the AD102 graphics processor, in its AD102-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce RTX 4090. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The AD102 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 608 mm² and 76,300 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, which uses the same GPU but has all 18176 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce RTX 4090 to reach the product's target shader count. It features 16384 shading units, 512 texture mapping units, and 176 ROPs. Also included are 512 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 128 raytracing acceleration cores. NVIDIA has paired 24 GB GDDR6X memory with the GeForce RTX 4090, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 2235 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2520 MHz, memory is running at 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective).
Being a triple-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 draws power from 1x 16-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 450 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a. GeForce RTX 4090 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface. The card's dimensions are 304 mm x 137 mm x 61 mm, and it features a triple-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 1599 US Dollars.