NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 339.79

$ 2425.94 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6694 points

42789 points

539% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

161 FPS

1019 FPS

859 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

77 FPS

503 FPS

426 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

113 FPS

740 FPS

627 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

61 FPS

425 FPS

365 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2309 points

14480 points

527% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3124.65 points

14992.38 points

379% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

101567 points

383325 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99687 points

380401 points

281% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1925 MHz

2017 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2075 MHz

2407 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

187% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

132.8 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

218% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

21760

269% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

680

269% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

73rd of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 5090 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060.