GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 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 Ti 8GB (43/100), 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 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 49.0 Poor WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 43.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 34401 87569
Night Raid 136255 206648
Port Royal 8103 38202
Solar Bay 62428 236689
Time Spy 13479 46873
Wild Life Extreme 25599 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 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 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 139 299
1080p Ultra 116 254
1440p Ultra 86 207
4K Ultra 50 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1211128053 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 23918713676 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 102915726 26123316077
Far Cry 6 1291199554 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 150978461 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 86745633 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 97805934 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16414610958 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1671379852 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 43518 85572
Face Detection (HP) 42533 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9359 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 21463 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26023 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4956 8184
Object Detection (SP) 11009 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 99698 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 203667 687080
Text Classification (SP) 3181 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 198.3 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.69 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 126.2 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.53 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.72 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.35 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19149.2 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 656.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7700 XT
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD106 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 14600Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released May 18, 2023 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 2310 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2535 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 34 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 34 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 4352 21760
Tensor Cores 136 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 136 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 202 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 86 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1095 1410
GPU Compute 12016 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 188 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 160 W 575 W
Transistor Count 22 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 117.02 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 345 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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