NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB 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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Price

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$ 773.49
$ 1992.24 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

16263 points
42789 points
163% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

383 FPS
1019 FPS
637 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

188 FPS
503 FPS
315 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

278 FPS
740 FPS
462 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

154 FPS
425 FPS
271 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5035 points
14480 points
187% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6656.46 points
14992.38 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

205515 points
383325 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

188957 points
380401 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
2017 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2610 MHz
8% slightly higher boost clock speed
2407 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
32 GiB
166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

285 W
101% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

208.8 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
102% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7680
21760
183% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240
680
183% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
176
120% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

15th of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 4070 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 285 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.

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