NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1819.99
$ 945.74 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33119 points
42789 points
29% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS
1019 FPS
233 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS
503 FPS
121 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS
740 FPS
173 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS
425 FPS
107 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points
14480 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points
14992.38 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points
383325 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points
380401 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz
10% slightly higher core clock speed
2017 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
2407 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB
32 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
512 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W
27% slightly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s
14% slightly higher pixel rate
423.6 Gigapixels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384
21760
32% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512
680
32% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192
9% slightly more render output processors
176

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October
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 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

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

In our comparison, 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 4090 has a slightly lower TDP at 450 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the GeForce RTX 4090.

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