GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 55.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 34.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 26481 87569
Night Raid 98330 206648
Port Royal 5819 38202
Solar Bay 45002 236689
Time Spy 10397 46873
Wild Life Extreme 19820 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 113 299
1080p Ultra 92 254
1440p Ultra 67 207
4K Ultra 37 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 95855937 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 20515311054 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 82724221 26123316077
Far Cry 6 103927543 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 120776644 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 74604223 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 74624525 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1271168343 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1411127942 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 85572
Face Detection (HP) 35464 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7421 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 8184
Object Detection (SP) 8644 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 687080
Text Classification (SP) 3086 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 155Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released February 22, 2023 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 24 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 3072 21760
Tensor Cores 96 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 155 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 731 1410
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 156 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 575 W
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 71-114 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark
📘 2025-10-20(bettylumi) Cinebench 2024
📘 2025-11-17(kritan) Cinebench 2024
📘 2025-12-18(AmirtheX) GeekBench
📘 2026-02-21(Бeнкдикт) GeekBench

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