NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 offers a higher boost clock (2370 MHz vs 2040 MHz). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 9728 vs 3072), more VRAM (16 GB vs 8 GB), a wider memory bus (256 bit vs 128 bit), higher memory bandwidth (576 GB/s vs 256 GB/s), and more L2 cache (64 MB vs 32 MB).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores3072
CUDA cores9728
Boost2370 MHz
Boost2040 MHz
VRAM8 GB
VRAM16 GB
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus256 bit
TGP35–140 W
TGP80–175 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX 40 Mobile
SeriesRTX 40 Mobile
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU chipAD107
GPU chipAD103
Chip variantGN21-X4
Chip variantGN21-X11
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node5 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size159 mm²
Die size379 mm²
Transistors18.9 billion
Transistors45.9 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateJanuary 3, 2023
Release dateJanuary 3, 2023
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores3072
CUDA cores9728
24× SM
76× SM
Boost clock (max)2370 MHz
Boost clock (max)2040 MHz
Boost clock (min)1470 MHz
Boost clock (min)1455 MHz
Memory
VRAM8 GB
VRAM16 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus256 bit
Memory speed16 Gb/s
Memory speed18 Gb/s
Bandwidth256 GB/s
Bandwidth576 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 115 W
TGP range80 - 150 W
Dynamic Boost25 W
Dynamic Boost25 W
Cache
L2 cache32 MB
L2 cache64 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs96
TMUs304
ROPs48
ROPs112
RT cores24
RT cores76
Tensor cores96
Tensor cores304
SM blocks24
SM blocks76
AI
AI performance233 TOPS
AI performance686 TOPS