AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

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Radeon RX 7900 XT compared with Radeon RX 9070

	AMDRadeon RX 7900 XT	AMDRadeon RX 9070
Overview
Released
Released	December 2022	March 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 3	RDNA 4
Shader cores
Shader cores	5,376	3,584
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,400 MHz	2,520 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	84 compute units, 192 ROPs; game clock 2000 MHz; 58 billion transistors	56 compute units, 128 ROPs; game clock 2070 MHz; 53.9 billion transistors
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	Chiplet design; 5nm Graphics Compute Die with 6nm Memory Cache Dies	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	84 second-generation Ray Accelerators	56 third-generation Ray Accelerators
AI cores
AI cores	168 AI Accelerators; 103 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	80 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation)	64 MB AMD Infinity Cache
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	20 GB GDDR6 (better)	16 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	320-bit (better)	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s (better)	640 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 2900 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	315 W	220 W (better)
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 5.0 x16
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 2.1 (UHBR 13.5), HDMI 2.1a, USB Type-C	DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1b (number of ports depends on the card)
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	Up to 4K 480 Hz or 8K 165 Hz over DisplayPort 2.1	–
Power connector
Power connector	2 × 8-pin	2 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	750 W	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2.5-slot (reference card)	–
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	276 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