Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ vs GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090

AMD

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+

Overall performance index

53,6

Rank 10 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 28,3% faster on average

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090

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

Performance by resolution

Full HD (1080p) +19,5 % 99,0fps 123,0fps 4K without ray tracing +27,0 % 84,0fps 115,0fps 4K with ray tracing +27,3 % 72,0fps 99,0fps 8K +38,3 % 58,0fps 94,0fps

Game benchmarks

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ 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 +24,2 %

Individual results (22 tests)

3D Mark Fire Strike Extreme Graphic Score 35.556 Punkte 45.499 Punkte +28,0 %

3D Mark Fire Strike Ultra Graphic Score 18.265 Punkte 25.111 Punkte +37,5 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 18.868 Punkte 26.209 Punkte +38,9 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 87,4 fps 121,3 fps +38,9 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,fps 64,0 fps 101,9 fps +59,2 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,Score 6.400 Punkte 10.188 Punkte +59,2 %

3D Mark Time Spy Extreme Graphic Score 14.770 Punkte 19.079 Punkte +29,2 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 70,0 fps 94,0 fps +34,3 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 25,0 fps 68,0 fps +172,0 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS, 1080p 14.241 Punkte 20.818 Punkte +46,2 %

Fortnite1920x1080 188,4 fps 172,7 fps +9,1 %

Fortnite 1920x1080 P99 290,6 fps 240,0 fps +21,1 %

Fortnite P0.1 77,8 fps 53,2 fps +46,2 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL 129.901 Punkte 324.920 Punkte +150,1 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 VULKAN 150.158 Punkte 253.953 Punkte +69,1 %

Metro Exodus P0.1 43,0 fps 68,4 fps +59,1 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark1920x1080, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 120,2 fps 122,7 fps +2,1 %

Synthetische Benchmarks 534,0 Rating 1.007 Rating +88,6 %

Unigine Superposition1080p Extreme 112,1 fps 158,5 fps +41,4 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme min FPS 76,6 fps 125,1 fps +63,4 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme max FPS 135,1 fps 182,7 fps +35,2 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme Punkte 14.990 fps 21.191 fps +41,4 %

Avg. 4K without ray tracing – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +36,9 %

Individual results (9 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 66,0 fps 87,0 fps +31,8 %

Cyberpunk 2077Ultra Preset, 3840x2160 63,9 fps 75,5 fps +18,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 Ultra 3840x2160 min 52,9 fps 60,0 fps +13,3 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 3840x2160 max 80,4 fps 95,2 fps +18,5 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS,3840x2160 7.035 Punkte 11.215 Punkte +59,4 %

Metro Exodus Ehanced Edition3840x2160 / Extreme 94,5 fps 139,4 fps +47,5 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark3840x2160, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 61,7 fps 75,6 fps +22,5 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 122,0 fps 183,0 fps +50,0 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 19.261 fps 28.682 fps +48,9 %

Avg. 4K with ray tracing – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +37,5 %

Individual results (8 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 24,0 fps 65,0 fps +170,8 %

Cyberpunk 2077Low RayTracing Low OHNE DLSS-FSR, 3840x2160 57,2 fps 67,7 fps +18,5 %

Cyberpunk 2077RayTracing Low DLSS / FSR2.1 3840x2160 111,7 fps 121,9 fps +9,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 min 99,4 fps 109,4 fps +10,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing Low 3840x2160 min 48,1 fps 54,5 fps +13,2 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Low RayTracing Low 3840x2160 max 69,9 fps 85,5 fps +22,4 %

Cyberpunk 2077 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 max 135,3 fps 146,8 fps +8,5 %

Metro Exodus P99. Moscow3840x2160 DXR,Ultra,no DLSS 144,5 fps 259,0 fps +79,2 %

Avg. 8K – all tested cards

GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090 +62,1 %

Individual results (2 tests)

Unigine Superposition8k Extreme 57,9 fps 94,4 fps +63,2 %

Unigine Superposition 8k Optimized 7.734 fps 12.626 fps +63,3 %

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 XT Nitro+	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 XT Nitro+	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Shader processors (CUDA / stream)	n/a	16,384
Compute units / SMs	64	n/a
RT cores	64	n/a
Tensor cores	128	n/a
Base clock	2,400 MHz	2,230 MHz
Boost clock	2,970 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 XT Nitro+	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 XT Nitro+	GigaByte GeForce RTX 4090
Interface	PCIe® 5.0 x16	PCIe Gen 4

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