The graphics card at the time of its release was the GeForce RTX 4090 Stronger which exists in the general consumer market and The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the second most powerfulalthough the truth is that the GeForce RTX 4080 is so close that we could almost talk about a tie.

In terms of consumption, there is a significant difference between the two graphics cards, and this was one of the arguments that was most used in the attempt to position the Radeon RX 7900 XTX as a “superior” solution to the GeForce RTX 4090. , since the former has A 355-watt TBP and a second 450-watt TGP.

The truth is that in terms of efficiency, the value of a graphics card is not only defined by consumption, but according to the concept of power per consumed wattand in this sense the difference between them is minimal, since Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 22% lower performance than GeForce RTX 4090 and the latter has 26% higher TGP.

Despite what we just said, there are people who still think that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is less powerful than the GeForce RTX 4090 because of its lower power consumption. It’s an argument that seems to make sense, but does it really? A new performance test performed with the specified graphics card with increased frequencies and with an extreme liquid cooling system, it confirms that consumption is not everything after all and that architecture is key.

An overclocker with advanced knowledge and with the necessary tools pushed the Radeon RX 7900 XTX up to a frequency of 3.467 GHz, although the average obtained in various tests was 3.33 GHz. This increase in speed allowed it to score 38,725 points in 3DMark Time Spy, 19,137 points in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, 20,492 points in 3DMark Port Royal and 7,690 points in 3DMark Speedway.

These results are generally at a level very similar to what we could achieve with a slightly overclocked GeForce RTX 4090, whose consumption is around 450 watts. However, that Radeon RX 7900 XTX last of the rounds has a Consumption 696W, that is, it remains at the gates of 700 watts. Its operating temperatures are kept under control because, as I told you earlier, a customized cooling system with low-temperature coolant was used.

With these results on the table, we can see that the argument that it performs worse because it consumes less is no longer valid, and that in the end Ada Lovelace architecture is better than RDNA3. However, it has to be acknowledged that AMD has made significant progress with this architecture and that it has made a huge leap in performance with ray tracing.