NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (220W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +155%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

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

2500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

50

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

6400

512

TMUs

200

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

200

128

RT Cores

50

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GB205

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB205

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

220W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 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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