AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Side-by-side comparison of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB VRAM, 960 GB/s) and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM, 1.0 TB/s). Compare specs, compute throughput, and workload sizing for LLM inference.

Decision Summary

SpecAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
VRAM24GB GDDR624GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth960 GB/s1.0 TB/s
FP8 TFLOPSβ€”165
FP16 TFLOPS61.482.6
InterconnectPCIe 4.0 (64 GB/s)PCIe 4.0 (64 GB/s)
TDP355W450W
Recommended QuantizationGGUF / AWQ β€” INT4 mandatory for 13B+GGUF / AWQ / GPTQ β€” INT4 mandatory for 13B+

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Cloud Provider Pricing

Current spot and on-demand rates across providers for AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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Data Freshness: Public Cloud APIs & Market Scraping | Refreshed Daily (UTC)Benchmark Baseline: Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4, vLLM v0.6.x, PagedAttention v2, FlashAttention-3

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Microarchitecture & Interconnect

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
ArchitectureRDNA 3
Process Node5nm TSMC
FP8 TFLOPSβ€”
FP16 TFLOPS61.4
Compute BoundMemory-bandwidth bound at large batch; compute-bound at small batch with FP8/BF16
Recommended TopologyPCIe Single Node β€” consumer GPU
Recommended Quantization: GGUF / AWQ β€” INT4 mandatory for 13B+
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
ArchitectureAda Lovelace AD102
Process Node5nm TSMC
FP8 TFLOPS165
FP16 TFLOPS82.6
Compute BoundExtremely memory-bandwidth bound β€” GDDR6X 1 TB/s cannot sustain FP16 inference at batchβ‰₯4
Recommended TopologyPCIe Single Node β€” 2 GPU max for training
Recommended Quantization: GGUF / AWQ / GPTQ β€” INT4 mandatory for 13B+

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