NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

13824 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (100W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +540%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

2560

512

TMUs

80

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

80

128

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GB207

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB207

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

0 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

450W

TDP

100W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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