GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada (84/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
NVIDIA

Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 43.0 Poor
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 81.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Fire Strike 72432 62803
Night Raid 195813 148225
Port Royal 26127 19497
Solar Bay 187525 145429
Time Spy 36299 26529
Wild Life Extreme 85218 53640

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada
1080p High 255 220
1080p Ultra 217 186
1440p Ultra 177 149
4K Ultra 106 88
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 220214174116
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 31321917383
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 19617212358
Far Cry 6 203179170104 17516014891
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 231168153125
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 14812411068
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 16413710860
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 287267201109
The Witcher 3 292268191101 24621215280

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 68370
Face Detection (HP) 78111 69004
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 13367
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 32477
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 42056
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 5545
Object Detection (SP) 21186 18668
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 230965
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 520389
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3491

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 618.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 22.1 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 399.9 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 26.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 15.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 53494.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 2210 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $6800
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released September 20, 2022 December 3, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Base Clock 2235 MHz 915 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2505 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 142
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 142
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 16384 18176
Tensor Cores 512 568
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 568

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Bus 384-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 20000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 48 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
DirectX 11 323 FPS 284 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 102 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1008
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 22495 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Die Size 609 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 300 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 76 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 124.79 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 481 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 1423 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —

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