GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) (48/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 47.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Fire Strike 72432 42232
Night Raid 195813 138214
Port Royal 26127 10024
Solar Bay 187525 76018
Time Spy 36299 15948
Wild Life Extreme 85218 30380

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
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 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
1080p High 255 155
1080p Ultra 217 130
1440p Ultra 177 99
4K Ultra 106 58
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 1361329562
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 25920014484
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 1191057133
Far Cry 6 203179170104 14013110563
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 1631059471
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 97836438
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 111887239
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 18717313471
The Witcher 3 292268191101 18415110957

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 45666
Face Detection (HP) 78111 52204
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 9511
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 29012
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 25621
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 6074
Object Detection (SP) 21186 12095
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 122234
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 182591
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3209

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 197.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 6.79 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 131.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 7.74 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 5.28 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 21833.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 726.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 GB206-300
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $379
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 April 15, 2025
Segment High-end Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Base Clock 2235 MHz 2407 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2572 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 36
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 32MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 36
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 16384 4608
Tensor Cores 512 144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 144

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Bus 384-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
DirectX 11 323 FPS 218 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 89 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1206
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 11212 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Die Size 609 mm² 181 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 180 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 21.9 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 87°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 123 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 370 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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