NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 1819.99

$ 339.79

$ 1480.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points

394% significantly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS

626 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS

305 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS

454 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points

300% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points

275% significantly higher Blender score

3124.65 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

2075 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1010 GB/s

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W

200 W

125% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s

264% significantly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

1290 Gigatexels/s

237% significantly higher texture rate

381.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS

237% significantly better floating point performance

24.44 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384

178% significantly more shading units

5888

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

178% significantly more texture mapping units

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 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 4060 has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 4090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060.