GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5060 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 5060
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Blackwell 2.0
GPU code name
AD102-300-A1
GB206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2022
2025 (recently)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
2520 MHz
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
2235 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
5 nm
0 nm
Number of transistors
76,300 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16384
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
450 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
1,290
362.9
Memory type
GDDR6X
GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
21000 MHz
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1,008 GB/s
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.9
9.1
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3