NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. All released in 2022. MSRP range: $1,599 · $429. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 24 | — |
| vram type | GDDR6X | — |
| tdp w | 450 | — |
| cuda cores | 16384 | — |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 41,427 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 21,102 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 9,318 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 25,820 points | 10,549 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 10,527 points | 4,178 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 9,225 points | 3,657 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | 11,287 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 39,397 points | 16,343 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 20,192 points | 7,547 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) | 19,000 pts | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy GPU | 35,200 pts | — |
| Deep Learning Benchmark (ResNet-50) | 128,000 images/sec | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- llama3.1:8b: 2550.0 tok/s
- qwen3:32b: 650.0 tok/s
- llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
- llama3.2:1b: 213.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 210.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 192.0 tok/s
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