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GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3090 has core speeds of 1395 MHz on the GPU, and 1219 MHz on the 24576 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 10496 SPUs along with 328 Texture Address Units and 112 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 1500 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2500 MHz. It also features a 320-bit bus, and uses a 5 nm design. It is made up of 5376 SPUs, 336 Texture Address Units, and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 300 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090 350 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3090 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 7900 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090 958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 7900 XT 819200 MB/sec
Difference: 139468 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT should be just a bit (about 10%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3090. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 504000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3090 457560 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 46440 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT should be much (about 84%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce RTX 3090, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 288000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3090 156240 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 131760 (84%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2020 December 2022
Code Name GA102-300-A1 Navi 31 XT
Memory 24576 MB 20480 MB
Core Speed 1395 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Speed 1219 GB/s 2500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 350 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 958668 MB/sec 819200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 457560 Mtexels/sec 504000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 156240 Mpixels/sec 288000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 10496 5376
Texture Mapping Units 328 336
Render Output Units 112 192
Bus Type GDDR6X GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 320-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 5 nm
Transistors 28300 million 57700 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3090

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Radeon RX 7900 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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