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GeForce RTX 4090 against Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB

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 4090left

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

Coding & development

GeForce RTX 4090left

87 vs 60 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 4090left

90 vs 77 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

GeForce RTX 4090left

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

Heavy gaming

GeForce RTX 4090left

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

Content creation

GeForce RTX 4090left

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

3D & rendering

GeForce RTX 4090left

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

Gaming & streaming

GeForce RTX 4090left

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

AI & local models

GeForce RTX 4090left

84 vs 54 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

    GeForce RTX 4090: 86

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 67

    19 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1080p

    GeForce RTX 4090: 90

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 77

    13 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1440p

    GeForce RTX 4090: 86

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 70

    16 ptsto the left

  • Games at 4K

    GeForce RTX 4090: 80

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 59

    21 ptsto the left

  • Rendering and video

    GeForce RTX 4090: 88

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 50

    38 ptsto the left

Price and value

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

  • Value, points per $100

    GeForce RTX 4090: 4.8

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 6.3

    31%to the right

  • Typical price

    GeForce RTX 4090: $1,799

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: $1,071

    $728to the right

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    GeForce RTX 4090: 24 GB

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 16 GB

    50%to the left

  • Board power

    GeForce RTX 4090: 450 W

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 304 W

    48%to the right

  • Length

    GeForce RTX 4090: 336 mm

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 330 mm

    2%to the right

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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB typically costs $728 less.
  • Per dollar, the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB is the better buy: 6.3 points per $100 against 4.8.

Specifications

SpecGeForce RTX 4090Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB
Video memory24 GB (better)16 GB
Board power450 W304 W (better)
Length336 mm330 mm (better)
Power connector12V-2x6 (16-pin)PCIe 8-pin
BrandNvidiaAMD
Released20222025 (better)
Typical price$1,799$1,071 (better)

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

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