Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. All released in 2022. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
AMD · RDNA 3
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NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | — | 24 |
| vram type | — | GDDR6X |
| tdp w | — | 450 |
| cuda cores | — | 16384 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 14,913 points | 25,820 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 6,134 points | 10,527 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 6,862 points | 9,225 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | — | 11,287 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 25,214 points | 39,397 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (combined) | 27,934 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy (GPU) | 30,139 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | — | 20,192 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) | — | 19,000 pts |
| 3DMark Time Spy GPU | — | 35,200 pts |
| Deep Learning Benchmark (ResNet-50) | — | 128,000 images/sec |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,285 pts | 1,302 pts |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- llama2:7b: 170.1 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 145.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 145.0 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- llama3.1:8b: 2550.0 tok/s
- qwen3:32b: 650.0 tok/s
- llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
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