NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (2520MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

15360 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +3062%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +1943%

36541

Radeon RX 560

1788

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +6066%

185

Radeon RX 560

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +2233%

280

Radeon RX 560

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1347%

304

Radeon RX 560

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1590%

186

Radeon RX 560

11

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +534%

203

Radeon RX 560

32

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +432%

213

Radeon RX 560

40

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +97%

186

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

16384

Shading Units

1024

512

TMUs

64

176

ROPs

16

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Polaris 21

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

75W

850 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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