SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC 16GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE. Specifications, performance, tests

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC 16GB and AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, chip, information processing units.

• Based on
  AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
• Board Manufacturer
  Sapphire -
• Board Model
  SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC 16GB -
• Board SKU
  11348-01-20G -
• GPU Chip
  Radeon RX 9070 XT -
• AI Accelerators
  - 160
• Architecture
  - RDNA 3
• Compute Units
  - 80
• Execution Units
  - 80
• Ray Accelerators
  - 80
• Shader
  - 5120

Video memory capacity, type, bus width and bandwidth describe different properties. These values alone do not determine graphics performance.

• Memory Bus
  256 bit 256 bit
• Memory Data Rate
  20 Gbps 18 Gbps
• Memory Size
  16 GB 16 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 GDDR6
• Infinity Cache
  - 64 MB
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 576 GB/s

Published GPU clock frequencies describe different operating modes. Clock speed alone does not determine graphics performance.

• Boost Clock
  Up to 3060 MHz 2245 MHz
• Game Clock
  Up to 2520 MHz 1880 MHz

Graphics card power limits and recommended system power supply describe different specifications.

• System Power Supply
  850 W (PSU recommendation) -
• Typical Board Power
  330 W 260 W
• TDP
  - 260 W

Types and sizes of coolers for graphics card cooling system SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC 16GB and AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

• Cooling
  Tri-X Cooling -

Connectivity and connections.

• DisplayPort Ports
  2 × DisplayPort 2.1a -
• HDMI Ports
  2 × HDMI -
• PCIe Interface
  PCIe 5.0 x16 -
• Power Connectors
  1 x 12V-2x6 (H++) 2x8-Pin
• DisplayPort Version
  - 2.1
• HDMI Version
  - 2.1

Built-in support for video and image compression standards.

• AV1
  - Decode / Encode

The difference in size, weight and slot of the compared devices

• Dimensions
  330.8 x 128.5 x 65.68 mm -
• Slot Size
  3.2 -

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE and SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC 16GB.

• Release date
  - 2023-07-27

• FP32 (theoretical)
  - 46 TFLOPS