Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse vs GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090

AMD

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse

Overall performance index

46,2

Rank 12 of 30 tested cards

Faster

NVIDIA

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090

Overall performance index

74,8

Rank 2 of 30 tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 is 38,3% faster on average

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090

Individual tests: Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse wins 3, GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 wins 38 (41 shared tests)

Performance by resolution

Full HD (1080p) +28,5 % 88,0fps 123,0fps 4K without ray tracing +38,3 % 71,0fps 115,0fps 4K with ray tracing +39,4 % 60,0fps 99,0fps 8K +45,7 % 51,0fps 94,0fps

Game benchmarks

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 Other tested cards Click a row to open the chart with all tested cards; hover shows the gap in %.

Avg. Full HD (1080p) – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +39,8 %

Individual results (22 tests)

3D Mark Fire Strike Extreme Graphic Score 30.232 Punkte 45.499 Punkte +50,5 %

3D Mark Fire Strike Ultra Graphic Score 15.218 Punkte 25.111 Punkte +65,0 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 15.263 Punkte 26.209 Punkte +71,7 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 70,7 fps 121,3 fps +71,7 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,fps 56,0 fps 101,9 fps +81,8 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,Score 5.602 Punkte 10.188 Punkte +81,9 %

3D Mark Time Spy Extreme Graphic Score 12.396 Punkte 19.079 Punkte +53,9 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 60,0 fps 94,0 fps +56,7 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 68,0 fps +240,0 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS, 1080p 11.817 Punkte 20.818 Punkte +76,2 %

Fortnite1920x1080 177,9 fps 172,7 fps +3,0 %

Fortnite 1920x1080 P99 278,1 fps 240,0 fps +15,9 %

Fortnite P0.1 56,7 fps 53,2 fps +6,6 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL 160.372 Punkte 324.920 Punkte +102,6 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 VULKAN 179.541 Punkte 253.953 Punkte +41,4 %

Metro Exodus P0.1 37,3 fps 68,4 fps +83,4 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark1920x1080, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 111,8 fps 122,7 fps +9,7 %

Synthetische Benchmarks 598,0 Rating 1.007 Rating +68,4 %

Unigine Superposition1080p Extreme 93,6 fps 158,5 fps +69,3 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme min FPS 74,9 fps 125,1 fps +67,0 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme max FPS 112,4 fps 182,7 fps +62,6 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme Punkte 12.518 fps 21.191 fps +69,3 %

Avg. 4K without ray tracing – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +62,0 %

Individual results (9 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 56,0 fps 87,0 fps +55,4 %

Cyberpunk 2077Ultra Preset, 3840x2160 53,4 fps 75,5 fps +41,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 Ultra 3840x2160 min 44,7 fps 60,0 fps +34,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 3840x2160 max 66,9 fps 95,2 fps +42,4 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS,3840x2160 5.844 Punkte 11.215 Punkte +91,9 %

Metro Exodus Ehanced Edition3840x2160 / Extreme 78,3 fps 139,4 fps +78,0 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark3840x2160, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 54,1 fps 75,6 fps +39,7 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 105,0 fps 183,0 fps +74,3 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 16.451 fps 28.682 fps +74,3 %

Avg. 4K with ray tracing – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +65,0 %

Individual results (8 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 65,0 fps +225,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077Low RayTracing Low OHNE DLSS-FSR, 3840x2160 47,4 fps 67,7 fps +42,8 %

Cyberpunk 2077RayTracing Low DLSS / FSR2.1 3840x2160 94,4 fps 121,9 fps +29,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 min 84,8 fps 109,4 fps +29,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing Low 3840x2160 min 40,1 fps 54,5 fps +35,8 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Low RayTracing Low 3840x2160 max 58,8 fps 85,5 fps +45,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 max 113,4 fps 146,8 fps +29,5 %

Metro Exodus P99. Moscow3840x2160 DXR,Ultra,no DLSS 125,1 fps 259,0 fps +107,0 %

Avg. 8K – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +84,3 %

Individual results (2 tests)

Unigine Superposition8k Extreme 50,7 fps 94,4 fps +86,4 %

Unigine Superposition 8k Optimized 6.772 fps 12.626 fps +86,4 %

Price / performance

Each dot is a tested card – the further up and left, the more performance per euro.

Specifications

Key details

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture	n/a	Ada Lovelace
Generation	n/a	Ada Lovelace
Type	Desktop GPU	Desktop GPU

Detailed specifications

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Shader processors (CUDA / stream)	n/a	16,384
Compute units / SMs	56	n/a
RT cores	56	n/a
Tensor cores	112	n/a
Base clock	2,070 MHz	2,230 MHz
Boost clock	2,520 MHz	2,520 MHz
Power draw (TDP/TGP)	n/a	450 W
FP32 performance	n/a	83.0 TFLOPS

VRAM capacity and type

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
Memory size	16 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	n/a	384 Bit
Memory bandwidth	640,0 GB/s	n/a

Form factor and compatibility

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Interface	PCIe® 5.0 x16	PCIe Gen 4

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