GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs RTX 4060 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking75not rated
Place by popularity52not in top-100
Power efficiency27.42no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameAD107GB203
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores307210752
Core clock speed1545 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1890 MHz2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate181.4672.0
Floating-point processing power11.61 TFLOPS43.01 TFLOPS
ROPs32128
TMUs96336
Tensor Cores96336
Ray Tracing Cores2484

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s1.01 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.910.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 4060 Mobile has 52.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 5090 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
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