AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

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Radeon RX 7800 XT compared with Radeon RX 9070

	AMDRadeon RX 7800 XT	AMDRadeon RX 9070
Overview
Released
Released	September 2023	March 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 3	RDNA 4
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,840	3,584
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,430 MHz	2,520 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	60 compute units, 96 ROPs, 240 texture units; game clock 2124 MHz; 28.1 billion transistors	56 compute units, 128 ROPs; game clock 2070 MHz; 53.9 billion transistors
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	60 second-generation Ray Accelerators	56 third-generation Ray Accelerators
AI cores
AI cores	120 AI Accelerators; 74.6 TOPS INT8	112 AI Accelerators; up to 578 TOPS INT8 or 1156 TOPS INT4 with structured sparsity
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution	AMD FSR "Redstone" (including FSR 4 upscaling), AMD Fluid Motion Frames, Radeon Super Resolution
Cache
Cache	64 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation)	64 MB AMD Infinity Cache
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	624 GB/s	640 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	GDDR6 at up to 19.5 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 2708 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	263 W	220 W (better)
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 5.0 x16
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1	DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1b (number of ports depends on the card)
Power connector
Power connector	2 × 8-pin	2 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	700 W	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2.5-slot (reference card)	–
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	267 mm long, 2.5-slot (reference card)	–
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode