GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (44/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 43.0 Poor
Gaming 44.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 34258 72432
Night Raid 135657 195813
Port Royal 8119 26127
Solar Bay 62446 187525
Time Spy 13456 36299
Wild Life Extreme 25587 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 8.9 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 140 255
1080p Ultra 117 217
1440p Ultra 86 177
4K Ultra 50 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1181128152 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 24519013276 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 105925626 22620814366
Far Cry 6 1291179256 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 144948362 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 88755731 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 95816232 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16114711159 302284222118
The Witcher 3 1721419953 292268191101

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 232.6 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.06 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 138.4 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.6 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.99 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.68 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19534.7 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 652.6 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD106 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 14600Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released July 18, 2023 September 20, 2022
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 2310 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 2535 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 34 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 34 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 4352 16384
Tensor Cores 136 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 136 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 128-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 199 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 89 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 1079 1303
GPU Compute 11976 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 188 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 165 W 450 W
Transistor Count 22 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 117.02 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 345 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599
Face Detection (HP) 78111
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 6349
Object Detection (SP) 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 601428
Text Classification (SP) 4074

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GeForce RTX 4090
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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