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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Release years: 2022, 2025. MSRP range: $1,999 · $1,599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
vram gb 3224
vram type GDDR7GDDR6X
tdp w 575450
cuda cores 2176016384

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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
3DMark Port Royal 45,808 points24,886 points
3DMark Speed Way 16,532 points11,625 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 11,906 points46,384 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) 14,133 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light 11,287 points
3DMark Time Spy 46,229 points36,560 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 20,192 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
PassMark G2D Mark 1,412 pts1,302 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 38,935 pts38,066 pts

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 5090

  • Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
  • Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
  • Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

  • llama3.1:8b: 2550.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:32b: 650.0 tok/s
  • llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s

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