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ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC against GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 4090 leads on the overall index. The price beside each button is the Amazon US reading where ScoutPrices has one; the comparison below is worked on typical prices.

Which one for what

Office & everyday

GeForce RTX 4090right

69 vs 89 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

GeForce RTX 4090right

60 vs 87 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

GeForce RTX 4090right

77 vs 90 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

GeForce RTX 4090right

70 vs 86 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

GeForce RTX 4090right

59 vs 80 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

GeForce RTX 4090right

58 vs 87 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

GeForce RTX 4090right

56 vs 87 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

GeForce RTX 4090right

64 vs 87 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

GeForce RTX 4090right

54 vs 84 for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory.

Head to head

Scores

Indices out of 100 on ScoutSpecs' own scale, one per kind of work. They are not frames per second and not a measurement of any one sample.

  • Spec score

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 67

    GeForce RTX 4090: 86

    19 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 77

    GeForce RTX 4090: 90

    13 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 70

    GeForce RTX 4090: 86

    16 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 59

    GeForce RTX 4090: 80

    21 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 50

    GeForce RTX 4090: 88

    38 ptsto the right

Price and value

Worked on typical prices, the figures the comparison is built on.

  • Value, points per $100

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 8.4

    GeForce RTX 4090: 4.8

    75%to the left

  • Typical price

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: $800

    GeForce RTX 4090: $1,799

    $999to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 16 GB

    GeForce RTX 4090: 24 GB

    50%to the right

  • Board power

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 304 W

    GeForce RTX 4090: 450 W

    48%to the left

  • Length

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 305 mm

    GeForce RTX 4090: 336 mm

    10%to the left

The verdict

  • The RTX 4090 is 23% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 36% in the RTX 4090's favour.
  • RTX 4090 carries 24 GB of video memory against 16 GB.
  • The ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC typically costs $999 less.
  • Per dollar, the ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC is the better buy: 8.4 points per $100 against 4.8.

Specifications

SpecASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OCGeForce RTX 4090
Video memory16 GB24 GB (better)
Board power304 W (better)450 W
Length305 mm (better)336 mm
Power connectorPCIe 8-pin12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandAMDNvidia
Released2025 (better)2022
Typical price$800 (better)$1,799

The better figure of each pair is in green, with a tick.

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