NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (2520MHz vs 2175MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 20GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

15616 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +310%

109.7 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 50

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

160bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

48

21760

Shading Units

6144

680

TMUs

192

ROPs

80

680

Tensor Cores

192

170

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

130W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

AD104

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

5 nm

Unknown

Transistors

35.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

294 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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