NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (220W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 532.6GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +155%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

-

50

SM Count

128

6400

Shading Units

16384

200

TMUs

512

64

ROPs

176

200

Tensor Cores

512

50

RT Cores

128

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

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Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

450W

550 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

AD102

GB205

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

5 nm

Unknown

Transistors

76.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

609 mm²

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

10.1

CUDA

8.9

6.8

Shader Model

6.8

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