GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada (39/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 4090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (93 vs 40)
Why choose Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (74 vs 43)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 74.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 40.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Fire Strike 72432 —
Night Raid 195813 —
Port Royal 26127 —
Solar Bay 187525 —
Time Spy 36299 —
Wild Life Extreme 85218 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
CUDA 8.9 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
1080p High 255 —
1080p Ultra 217 —
1440p Ultra 177 —
4K Ultra 106 —
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 —
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 —
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 —
Far Cry 6 203179170104 —
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 —
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 —
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 —
Margin of Error Low —
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 —
The Witcher 3 292268191101 —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 29700
Face Detection (HP) 78111 32453
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 6382
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 16489
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 17694
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 4324
Object Detection (SP) 21186 7656
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 56937
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 116441
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3097

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 170.5 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 4.12 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 102.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 4.06 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 3.25 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 12273.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 353.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 AD107
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $649
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 February 12, 2022
Segment High-end Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1620 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2130 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 12MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 22
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 16384 2816
Tensor Cores 512 88
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 88

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Bus 384-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
DirectX 11 323 FPS 139 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 71 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1071
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 7836 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Die Size 609 mm² 159 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 70 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 102 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 187 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —

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