GeForce RTX 5090 vs RTX 4070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking20not rated
Place by popularity32not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation60.23no data
Power efficiency23.96no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameAD104GB202
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 April 2023 (1 year ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores588821760
Core clock speed1920 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed2475 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate455.41,714
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPS109.7 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs184680
Tensor Cores184680
Ray Tracing Cores46170

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length240 mm304 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR7
Maximum RAM amount12 GB32 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth504.2 GB/s1.52 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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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 12 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 500 Watt

RTX 4070 has 150% lower power consumption.

RTX 5090, on the other hand, has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 5090. We've got no test results to judge.


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