NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 (1.01TB/s vs 355.0GB/s)

11776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (170W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +255%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

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

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

36

16384

Shading Units

4608

512

TMUs

144

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

144

128

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

170W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GB206

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

0

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 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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