NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2520MHz vs 1750MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 1020GB/s)

12544 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Lower TDP (295W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +514%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +291%

36499

Radeon VII

9319

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +1505%

12393

Radeon VII

772

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +320%

185

Radeon VII

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +241%

280

Radeon VII

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +166%

304

Radeon VII

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +186%

186

Radeon VII

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +78%

203

Radeon VII

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +39%

213

Radeon VII

153

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +150%

165

Radeon VII

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +198%

185

Radeon VII

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +36%

186

Radeon VII

136

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

128

SM Count

-

16384

Shading Units

3840

512

TMUs

240

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

295W

850 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Vega 20

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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