The RTX 4080 might be the high-end flagship of the latest Ada Lovelace set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most mid-range PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 4070 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 599. Spec for spec, this RTX 4070 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RTX 3070, by boasting 30.5 % more fps.
The RTX 4070 has 12 GB RAM compared to the RTX 3070 's 8 GB video memory. In our synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 4070 blows past the RTX 3070, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and, amazingly, even the RTX 3080 as well.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 4070 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RTX 3070, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Immortals of Aveum, Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Callisto Protocol, Remnant II, The Last of Us Part I at 69 fps to 93 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 78 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, Forspoken, The Last of Us Part I, Atomic Heart, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at 64 fps to 78 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 70 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, Halo Infinite at 63 fps to 66 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
The RX 6900 XT is much more expensive than the RX 5700 XT as it costs a whopping $ 999. Compare this to the RX 5700 XT, which came originally at a price of $ 399. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA closest equivalent card is the RTX 3090 which costs $ 1499. Spec for spec, this RX 6900 XT leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RX 5700 XT, by boasting 103.7 % more fps.
The RX 6900 XT has 16 GB RAM compared to the RX 5700 XT 's 8 GB video memory. Compared to its NVIDIA 's closest rival, RTX 3090, the RX 6900 XT was 1.5 % faster.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RX 6900 XT consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RX 5700 XT and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, Immortals of Aveum, The Callisto Protocol, Remnant II, The Last of Us Part I at 70 fps to 91 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 79 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Last of Us Part I, Forspoken, Atomic Heart, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at 61 fps to 81 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 72 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Godfall, Halo Infinite, A Plague Tale: Requiem at 62 fps to 63 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps.
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Board Number | PG141 SKU 343 | - |
| Length | 240 mm 9.4 inches | 267 mm 10.5 inches |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI 2x DisplayPort 1x USB Type-C |
| Power Connectors | 1x 16-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Triple-slot |
| TDP | 200 W | 300 W |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 2475 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective | 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 40 | Navi II |
| Launch Price | 599 USD | 999 USD |
| Production | Active | Active |
| Release Date | Apr 12th, 2023 | Dec 8th, 2020 |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.5 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | RDNA 2.0 |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 536 mm² |
| GPU Name | AD104 | Navi 21 |
| GPU Variant | AD104-250-A1 | Navi 21 XL |
| Process Size | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 35,800 million | 26,800 million |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 504.2 GB/s | 512.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 192 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 16384 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 64 | 128 |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 5120 |
| TMUs | 184 | 320 |
| RTX 4070 | RX 6900 XT | |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Rate | 158.4 GPixel/s | 288.0 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 455.4 GTexel/s | 720.0 GTexel/s |
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