Component comparison
GeForce RTX 4090 vs RTX A500
GeForce RTX 4090 vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 4090
- + Release year (+2)
- + VRAM (GB) (+12 GB)
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+922 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+320 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+60 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
- + CUDA cores (+14336)
- + TMUs (+448)
- + ROPs (+144)
- + RT cores (+112)
- + Tensor cores (+448)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+75.33 TFLOPS)
- + Energy efficiency (+21.6)
- + PassMark (overall) (+20509)
- + Normalized score (+59.2)
B
RTX A500
Components are close in specs
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 4090
|
Component B
RTX A500
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2023 (+2) | 2021 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 GB (+12 GB) | 4 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 2250 MHz (+500 MHz) | 1750 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 1034 GB/s (+922 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 384 bit (+320 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 120 W (+60 W) | 60 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 4 nm (-4 nm) | 8 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 76,300M | — |
| Die size (mm²) | 609 mm² | — |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | — |
| Boost clock (MHz) | — | 1537 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 16,384 (+14336) | 2,048 |
| TMUs | 512 (+448) | 64 |
| ROPs | 176 (+144) | 32 |
| RT cores | 128 (+112) | 16 |
| Tensor cores | 512 (+448) | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 82.58 TFLOPS (+75.33 TFLOPS) | 7.25 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 443.50 GPixel/s | — |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 1290.00 GTexel/s | — |
| Energy efficiency | 41.9 (+21.6) | 20.2 |
| PassMark (overall) | 27,047 (+20509) | 6,538 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 21,251 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 46,191 | — |
| Geekbench OpenCL | — | — |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | — |
| Normalized score | 75.0 (+59.2) | 15.8 |
Only in component A
ray_tracing
In both
CUDA
DLSS
ReBAR
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 4090 | RTX A500 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 4090 wins 16 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).