NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 480.0GB/s)

15872 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +276%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

170

5888

Shading Units

21760

184

TMUs

680

64

ROPs

192

184

Tensor Cores

680

46

RT Cores

170

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

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Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GB202

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

4 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

10.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.8

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