Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 4090 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4070
  • + Die size (mm²) (+315 mm²)
  • + Normalized score (+9.5)
B GeForce RTX 4090
  • + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+530 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+192 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+5 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-1 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+40,500M)
  • + CUDA cores (+10496)
  • + TMUs (+328)
  • + ROPs (+112)
  • + RT cores (+82)
  • + Tensor cores (+328)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+53.43 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+285.10 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+834.60 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+10.4)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+7558)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+9291)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+16140)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4070
 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) 504 GB/s 1034 GB/s (+530 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 384 bit (+192 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 120 W (+5 W)
Lithography (nm) 5 nm 4 nm (-1 nm)
Transistors (M) 35,800M 76,300M (+40,500M)
Die size (mm²) 294 mm² (+315 mm²) 609 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 5,888 16,384 (+10496)
TMUs 184 512 (+328)
ROPs 64 176 (+112)
RT cores 46 128 (+82)
Tensor cores 184 512 (+328)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 29.15 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS (+53.43 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 158.40 GPixel/s 443.50 GPixel/s (+285.10 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 455.40 GTexel/s 1290.00 GTexel/s (+834.60 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 31.5 41.9 (+10.4)
PassMark (overall) 19,489 27,047 (+7558)
3DMark Time Spy 11,960 21,251 (+9291)
3DMark Fire Strike 30,051 46,191 (+16140)
Geekbench OpenCL 168,695 —
Geekbench Vulkan 159,285 —
Normalized score 84.5 (+9.5) 75.0

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4090 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 59 FPS 87 FPS 47.5% (B)
ARC Raiders 116 FPS 197 FPS 69.8% (B)
Alan Wake 2 65 FPS 109 FPS 67.7% (B)
Alone in the Dark 126 FPS 195 FPS 54.8% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 67 FPS 96 FPS 43.3% (B)
Armored Core 6 91 FPS 109 FPS 19.8% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 116 FPS 195 FPS 68.1% (B)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 46 FPS 77 FPS 67.4% (B)
Atlas Fallen 107 FPS 182 FPS 70.1% (B)
Atomic Heart 86 FPS 144 FPS 67.4% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 65 FPS 114 FPS 75.4% (B)
Back 4 Blood 221 FPS 309 FPS 39.8% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 73 FPS 123 FPS 68.5% (B)
Battlefield 5 140 FPS 170 FPS 21.4% (B)
Black Myth: Wukong 54 FPS 67 FPS 24.1% (B)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 162 FPS 51.4% (B)
Borderlands 4 52 FPS 55 FPS 5.8% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 81 FPS 155 FPS 91.4% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 111 FPS 147 FPS 32.4% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 99 FPS 155 FPS 56.6% (B)
Civilization 7 118 FPS 161 FPS 36.4% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 135 FPS 235 FPS 74.1% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 250 FPS 300 FPS 20% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 152 FPS 219 FPS 44.1% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 135 FPS 147 FPS 8.9% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 58 FPS 98 FPS 69% (B)
Dead Island 2 152 FPS 190 FPS 25% (B)
Dead Space Remake 81 FPS 130 FPS 60.5% (B)
Diablo 4 207 FPS 361 FPS 74.4% (B)
Doom: The Dark Ages 68 FPS 106 FPS 55.9% (B)
Dota 2 178 FPS 199 FPS 11.8% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 61 FPS 71 FPS 16.4% (B)
Dying Light 2 95 FPS 145 FPS 52.6% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 162 FPS 179 FPS 10.5% (B)
EA Sports FC 25 123 FPS 159 FPS 29.3% (B)
EA Sports WRC 85 FPS 117 FPS 37.6% (B)
Elden Ring 60 FPS 60 FPS ≈
Elex 2 118 FPS 116 FPS +1.7% (A)
Enshrouded 63 FPS 94 FPS 49.2% (B)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 120 FPS ≈
F1 2020 228 FPS 344 FPS 50.9% (B)
F1 2021 163 FPS 276 FPS 69.3% (B)
F1 22 109 FPS 199 FPS 82.6% (B)
F1 23 153 FPS 152 FPS +0.7% (A)
F1 24 179 FPS 216 FPS 20.7% (B)
F1 25 156 FPS 203 FPS 30.1% (B)
Far Cry 5 139 FPS 173 FPS 24.5% (B)
Far Cry 6 105 FPS 103 FPS +1.9% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 102 FPS 145 FPS 42.2% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 41 FPS 122 FPS 197.6% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 59 FPS 109 FPS 84.7% (B)
Fortnite 200 FPS 300 FPS 50% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 180 FPS 250 FPS 38.9% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 190 FPS 281 FPS 47.9% (B)
Forza Horizon 6 71 FPS 94 FPS 32.4% (B)
GRID Legends 126 FPS 190 FPS 50.8% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 134 FPS 154 FPS 14.9% (B)
Ghost of Tsushima 82 FPS 116 FPS 41.5% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 172 FPS 234 FPS 36% (B)
God of War 96 FPS 167 FPS 74% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 98 FPS 178 FPS 81.6% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 147 FPS 158 FPS 7.5% (B)
Helldivers 2 92 FPS 136 FPS 47.8% (B)
High On Life 127 FPS 211 FPS 66.1% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 57 FPS 45 FPS +26.7% (A)
Horizon Forbidden West 59 FPS 89 FPS 50.8% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 143 FPS 174 FPS 21.7% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 56 FPS 108 FPS 92.9% (B)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 55 FPS 136 FPS 147.3% (B)
Last Epoch 156 FPS 189 FPS 21.2% (B)
Lies of P 150 FPS 208 FPS 38.7% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 63 FPS 87 FPS 38.1% (B)
Metro Exodus 111 FPS 156 FPS 40.5% (B)
Once Human 105 FPS 197 FPS 87.6% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 102 FPS 139 FPS 36.3% (B)
Pragmata 92 FPS 111 FPS 20.7% (B)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 322 FPS 356 FPS 10.6% (B)
Rainbow Six Extraction 240 FPS 346 FPS 44.2% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 58 FPS 135 FPS 132.8% (B)
Ready or Not 194 FPS 158 FPS +22.8% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 160 FPS 218 FPS 36.3% (B)
Returnal 64 FPS 159 FPS 148.4% (B)
Riders Republic 135 FPS 185 FPS 37% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 34 FPS 74 FPS 117.6% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 149 FPS 243 FPS 63.1% (B)
Skull & Bones 94 FPS 122 FPS 29.8% (B)
Sons of the Forest 72 FPS 88 FPS 22.2% (B)
Space Marine 2 58 FPS 74 FPS 27.6% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 115 FPS 118 FPS 2.6% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 65 FPS 106 FPS 63.1% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 40 FPS 83 FPS 107.5% (B)
Starfield 51 FPS 84 FPS 64.7% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 112 FPS 116 FPS 3.6% (B)
The Crew Motorfest 60 FPS 60 FPS ≈
The Finals 168 FPS 175 FPS 4.2% (B)
The First Descendant 87 FPS 153 FPS 75.9% (B)
The Last of Us 57 FPS 103 FPS 80.7% (B)
The Quarry 122 FPS 177 FPS 45.1% (B)
The Witcher 3 229 FPS 394 FPS 72.1% (B)
The Witcher 3 124 FPS 290 FPS 133.9% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 101 FPS 138 FPS 36.6% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 74 FPS 168 FPS 127% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 137 FPS 220 FPS 60.6% (B)
Until Dawn 59 FPS 104 FPS 76.3% (B)
Valorant 260 FPS 350 FPS 34.6% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 130 FPS 131 FPS 0.8% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 52 FPS 78 FPS 50% (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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