GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 (89/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 72432 87569
Night Raid 195813 206648
Port Royal 26127 38202
Solar Bay 187525 236689
Time Spy 36299 46873
Wild Life Extreme 85218 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 255 299
1080p Ultra 217 254
1440p Ultra 177 207
4K Ultra 106 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 26123316077
Far Cry 6 203179170104 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 329302238128
The Witcher 3 292268191101 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 85572
Face Detection (HP) 78111 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 8184
Object Detection (SP) 21186 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 687080
Text Classification (SP) 4074 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 2235 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 176
Shading Units 16384 21760
Tensor Cores 512 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 384-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 323 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1410
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 609 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 575 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —

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