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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Higher Bandwidth: 1008 GB/s (1008 GB/s vs 576.0 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 16384 (16384 vs 12800)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Higher Boost Clock: 2550MHz (2520MHz vs 2550MHz)
Larger Memory Size: 32GB (24GB vs 32GB)
Newer Launch Date: August 2023 (September 2022 vs August 2023)

Basic

NVIDIA

Label Name

NVIDIA

September 2022

Launch Date

August 2023

Desktop

Platform

Desktop

GeForce RTX 4090

Model Name

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

GeForce 40

Generation

Quadro Ada

2235MHz

Base Clock

1155MHz

2520MHz

Boost Clock

2550MHz

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

76,300 million

Transistors

76,300 million

128

RT Cores

100

512

Tensor Cores

Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.

400

512

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

5 nm

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Memory Specifications

24GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

256bit

1313MHz

Memory Clock

2250MHz

1008 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

576.0 GB/s

Display and Media

1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

448.8 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

1020 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

65.28 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

1020 GFLOPS

80.928 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

63.974 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

128

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

100

16384

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

12800

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72MB

L2 Cache

72MB

450W

TDP

250W

1.3

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

8.9

CUDA

8.9

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

176

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

176

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

850W

Suggested PSU

600W