Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 4090 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4060
  • + Die size (mm²) (+450 mm²)
  • + Normalized score (+0.9)
B GeForce RTX 4090
  • + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+762 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+256 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+5 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-1 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+57,400M)
  • + CUDA cores (+13312)
  • + TMUs (+416)
  • + ROPs (+128)
  • + RT cores (+104)
  • + Tensor cores (+416)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+67.47 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+325.40 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+1053.80 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+13.8)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+9692)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+10922)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+19661)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4060
 Component B
GeForce RTX 4090
Release year 2023 2023
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 16 GB (+8 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz 2250 MHz (+250 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 272 GB/s 1034 GB/s (+762 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 384 bit (+256 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 120 W (+5 W)
Lithography (nm) 5 nm 4 nm (-1 nm)
Transistors (M) 18,900M 76,300M (+57,400M)
Die size (mm²) 159 mm² (+450 mm²) 609 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,072 16,384 (+13312)
TMUs 96 512 (+416)
ROPs 48 176 (+128)
RT cores 24 128 (+104)
Tensor cores 96 512 (+416)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 15.11 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS (+67.47 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 118.10 GPixel/s 443.50 GPixel/s (+325.40 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 236.20 GTexel/s 1290.00 GTexel/s (+1053.80 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 28.0 41.9 (+13.8)
PassMark (overall) 17,355 27,047 (+9692)
3DMark Time Spy 10,329 21,251 (+10922)
3DMark Fire Strike 26,530 46,191 (+19661)
Geekbench OpenCL 101,654 —
Geekbench Vulkan 99,998 —
Normalized score 75.9 (+0.9) 75.0

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4090 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 73 FPS 87 FPS 19.2% (B)
ARC Raiders 92 FPS 197 FPS 114.1% (B)
Alan Wake 2 54 FPS 109 FPS 101.9% (B)
Alone in the Dark 144 FPS 195 FPS 35.4% (B)
Armored Core 6 100 FPS 109 FPS 9% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 76 FPS 195 FPS 156.6% (B)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 111 FPS 144 FPS 29.7% (B)
Atlas Fallen 89 FPS 182 FPS 104.5% (B)
Atomic Heart 63 FPS 144 FPS 128.6% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 32 FPS 114 FPS 256.3% (B)
Back 4 Blood 198 FPS 309 FPS 56.1% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 69 FPS 123 FPS 78.3% (B)
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 170 FPS 30.8% (B)
Black Myth: Wukong 48 FPS 67 FPS 39.6% (B)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 162 FPS 51.4% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 80 FPS 155 FPS 93.8% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 70 FPS 147 FPS 110% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 81 FPS 155 FPS 91.4% (B)
Civilization 7 112 FPS 161 FPS 43.8% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 102 FPS 235 FPS 130.4% (B)
Control 89 FPS 184 FPS 106.7% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 195 FPS 300 FPS 53.8% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 157 FPS 219 FPS 39.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 123 FPS 147 FPS 19.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 64 FPS 98 FPS 53.1% (B)
Dead Island 2 154 FPS 190 FPS 23.4% (B)
Dead Space Remake 54 FPS 130 FPS 140.7% (B)
Death Stranding 150 FPS 167 FPS 11.3% (B)
Diablo 4 180 FPS 361 FPS 100.6% (B)
Dota 2 164 FPS 199 FPS 21.3% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 57 FPS 71 FPS 24.6% (B)
Dying Light 2 52 FPS 145 FPS 178.8% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 143 FPS 179 FPS 25.2% (B)
EA Sports FC 25 129 FPS 159 FPS 23.3% (B)
EA Sports WRC 85 FPS 117 FPS 37.6% (B)
Elex 2 114 FPS 116 FPS 1.8% (B)
Enshrouded 53 FPS 94 FPS 77.4% (B)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 120 FPS ≈
F1 2021 208 FPS 276 FPS 32.7% (B)
F1 22 125 FPS 199 FPS 59.2% (B)
F1 23 144 FPS 152 FPS 5.6% (B)
F1 24 143 FPS 216 FPS 51% (B)
Far Cry 5 128 FPS 173 FPS 35.2% (B)
Far Cry 6 101 FPS 103 FPS 2% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 75 FPS 122 FPS 62.7% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 54 FPS 109 FPS 101.9% (B)
Fortnite 180 FPS 300 FPS 66.7% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 160 FPS 250 FPS 56.3% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 238 FPS 281 FPS 18.1% (B)
GRID Legends 132 FPS 190 FPS 43.9% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 141 FPS 154 FPS 9.2% (B)
Ghost of Tsushima 66 FPS 116 FPS 75.8% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 69 FPS 234 FPS 239.1% (B)
God of War 52 FPS 167 FPS 221.2% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 85 FPS 178 FPS 109.4% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 135 FPS 158 FPS 17% (B)
Helldivers 2 85 FPS 136 FPS 60% (B)
High On Life 92 FPS 211 FPS 129.3% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 71 FPS 45 FPS +57.8% (A)
Horizon Forbidden West 59 FPS 89 FPS 50.8% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 53 FPS 108 FPS 103.8% (B)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 57 FPS 136 FPS 138.6% (B)
Last Epoch 158 FPS 189 FPS 19.6% (B)
Lies of P 127 FPS 208 FPS 63.8% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 47 FPS 87 FPS 85.1% (B)
Metro Exodus 25 FPS 156 FPS 524% (B)
Once Human 100 FPS 197 FPS 97% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 92 FPS 139 FPS 51.1% (B)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 340 FPS 356 FPS 4.7% (B)
Rainbow Six Extraction 141 FPS 346 FPS 145.4% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 59 FPS 135 FPS 128.8% (B)
Ready or Not 148 FPS 158 FPS 6.8% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 124 FPS 218 FPS 75.8% (B)
Returnal 63 FPS 159 FPS 152.4% (B)
Riders Republic 122 FPS 185 FPS 51.6% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 38 FPS 74 FPS 94.7% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 156 FPS 243 FPS 55.8% (B)
Skull & Bones 78 FPS 122 FPS 56.4% (B)
Sons of the Forest 60 FPS 88 FPS 46.7% (B)
Space Marine 2 68 FPS 74 FPS 8.8% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 73 FPS 118 FPS 61.6% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 50 FPS 106 FPS 112% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 36 FPS 83 FPS 130.6% (B)
Starfield 47 FPS 84 FPS 78.7% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 78 FPS 116 FPS 48.7% (B)
The Crew Motorfest 60 FPS 60 FPS ≈
The Finals 156 FPS 175 FPS 12.2% (B)
The First Descendant 79 FPS 153 FPS 93.7% (B)
The Last of Us 55 FPS 103 FPS 87.3% (B)
The Quarry 73 FPS 177 FPS 142.5% (B)
The Witcher 3 191 FPS 394 FPS 106.3% (B)
The Witcher 3 110 FPS 290 FPS 163.6% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 59 FPS 138 FPS 133.9% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 87 FPS 168 FPS 93.1% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 128 FPS 220 FPS 71.9% (B)
Until Dawn 57 FPS 104 FPS 82.5% (B)
Valorant 240 FPS 350 FPS 45.8% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 61 FPS 78 FPS 27.9% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 117 FPS 167 FPS 42.7% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4090 wins 19 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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