NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 677.99

$ 1142.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5888 points

33119 points

462% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

145 FPS

787 FPS

642 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

382 FPS

297 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

103 FPS

567 FPS

463 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

66 FPS

318 FPS

252 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

10586 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9236 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2096.93 points

11723.75 points

459% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

103585 points

318192 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93415 points

273214 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1620 MHz

2235 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

2520 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

1010 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

95% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

316% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

270% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

640% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

16384

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

512

166% significantly more texture mapping units

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

85th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Quadro RTX 5000 vs GeForce RTX 4090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the Quadro RTX 5000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a slightly 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 4090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 230 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the Quadro RTX 5000.