Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070

Compare the Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 4070 on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

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The short answer

The Radeon RX 7800 XT is the better value, though the GeForce RTX 4070 is the faster card at 1440p.

  • Gaming performance is effectively a wash at 1440p (index 49 vs 48).
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 11%.
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT delivers about 13% more frames per dollar at 1440p.
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT carries more VRAM (16GB vs 12GB), an edge at 4K and in memory-heavy games.
  • GeForce RTX 4070 draws less power (200W vs 263W), so it runs cooler and asks less of your PSU.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

1440p gaming
Radeon RX 7800 XT49
GeForce RTX 407048

The two are effectively tied at 1440p.

Performance per dollar

1440p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

Radeon RX 7800 XT

6.7

per $100 spent

Better value

GeForce RTX 4070

5.9

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Radeon RX 7800 XT
GeForce RTX 4070
Price (from)
$729.00
$809.99
1440p gaming index
49
48
VRAM
16GB GDDR6
12GB GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth
624 GB/s
504 GB/s
Boost clock
2430 MHz
2475 MHz
Shader cores
3,840
5,888
Ray tracing cores
60
46
Tensor / AI cores
120
184
TDP
263W
200W
Recommended PSU
700W
650W
Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation
Architecture
RDNA 3 Navi 32
Ada Lovelace AD104
Process node
TSMC N5/N6
TSMC 4N
MSRP
$499.00
$599.00

Productivity & compute

Radeon RX 7800 XT
GeForce RTX 4070
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
49,707
44,065
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
160,731
155,379
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
24,424
26,877
Render-Blender (samples/min)
2,476
5,399

Where to buy

Radeon RX 7800 XTfrom $729.00
From$729.00
2 versions in stock
GeForce RTX 4070from $809.99
From$809.99
4 versions in stock

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