NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX. 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.
NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace
24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →
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AMD · RDNA 3
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Full Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 25,820 points | 14,913 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 10,527 points | 6,134 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 9,225 points | 6,862 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | 11,287 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 39,397 points | 25,214 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 | 1,302 pts | 1,285 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.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- llama3.1:8b: 2550.0 tok/s
- qwen3:32b: 650.0 tok/s
- llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- llama2:7b: 170.1 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 145.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 145.0 tok/s
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