NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14473 points

42789 points

195% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

355 FPS

1019 FPS

665 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

182 FPS

503 FPS

321 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

253 FPS

740 FPS

487 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

145 FPS

425 FPS

280 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7059.26 points

14992.38 points

112% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181715 points

383325 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

172409 points

380401 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1335 MHz

2017 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2407 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

379% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

123% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

9728

21760

123% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

304

680

123% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

176

57% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

19th 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

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 120 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 4090 Laptop.