The new graphics that have been presented NVIDIA They have managed to arouse great enthusiasm among many people, while for others it is a type of hardware that has simply made certain updates with respect to previous versions, without changes that are too big. But the real way to know what has changed between the generations is to compare everything they offer, and that is why today we bring you a summary of the technical specifications that the main models have so that you can see what the difference is between the RTX 40 and the RTX50.
Many of the changes that NVIDIA has done for the new graphics that it has prepared are related to the ability to offer superior performance for both games and AI, in this aspect the brand has tried to create hardware that serves as a general purpose for both cases. But in addition to this, one of the things that has surprised us the most is that in addition to arriving with an increase in performance, unlike what we expected, the base price that the company has indicated is lower than what we expected, even reducing the price. output compared to the previous generation.
RTX 4070 vs RTX 5070
Starting with the comparison that we are going to make, the first thing we must do is that the RTX 5070 It has a series of improvements at the cost of offering considerably higher consumption than the previous one, something that is repeated in practically all the graphics of the new generation. The new model also comes with a fairly notable update in all aspects, also presenting one of the most important changes, the jump to GDDR7 which offers a much larger memory bandwidth:
| RTX 4070 | RTX 5070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | 1920MHz 2475MHz |
2160MHz 2510MHz |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 6144 |
| TMUs | 184 | 192 |
| ROPs | 64 | 96 |
| Computing units | 46 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | 192 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 46 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 36MB shared | 40MB shared |
| TFLOPS (FP32) | 29.2 | 30.8 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 200W | 250W |
| Process | 5nm | 4nm |
| Memory | 12GB GDDR6X 1313MHz | 12GB GDDR7 1750MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 504.2 GB/s | 672.2 GB/s |
| Base launch price | €599 | €549 |
RTX 4080 vs RTX 5080
Going through the high range that NVIDIA offers us, we can see that the first tests carried out in 3D Mark show quite good data, since the RTX 5080 It has 13% more score by achieving 34201 points compared to the 30163 of the RTX 4080. In addition to this, the price reduction is the most notable, since in the previous model it was practically €50, while this model has with a price €200 lower than the previous generation when it came out:
| RTX 4080 | RTX 5080 | |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | 2205MHz 2505MHz |
2300MHz 2620MHz |
| Shading Units | 9728 | 10752 |
| TMUs | 304 | 336 |
| ROPs | 112 | 168 |
| Computing units | 76 | 84 |
| Tensor Cores | 304 | 336 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 76 | 84 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 64MB shared |
| TFLOPS (FP32) | 48.7 | 56.3 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 320W | 360W |
| Process | 5nm | 4nm |
| Memory | 16GB GDDR6X 1400MHz | 16GB GDDR7 2400MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 716.8GB/s | 960GB/s |
| Base launch price | €1199 | €999 |
RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090
Finally we have the two flagships of each generation, in the first tests that have been carried out on a RTX 5090 They show that it offers a score 16% higher than the RTX 4090 in 3D Mark by offering 49122 points compared to 42169 for the previous generation. But this is not the only thing worth highlighting about this model, since it does not improve in as many aspects as we can imagine.
It offers a much lower clock frequency with a much higher price, practically €500 more difference, but which may be influenced by the memory change, since by offering 32 GB of GDDR7, the bandwidth is 77% higher that of the previous generation, the biggest improvement of this generation compared to the two models that we have seen previously that were around 33-34%:
| RTX 4090 | RTX 5090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | 2235MHz 2520MHz |
2010MHz 2400MHz |
| Shading Units | 16384 | 21760 |
| TMUs | 512 | 680 |
| ROPs | 176 | 340 |
| Computing units | 128 | 170 |
| Tensor Cores | 512 | 680 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 128 | 170 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 72MB shared | 88MB shared |
| TFLOPS (FP32) | 82.6 | 104.5 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 450W | 575W |
| Process | 5nm | 4nm |
| Memory | 24GB GDDR6X 2625MHz | 32GB GDDR7 |
| Memory bandwidth | 1010 GB/s | 1792 GB/s |
| Base launch price | €1599 | €1999 |
Which graph to choose in 2025?
After having seen all the changes with which the new NVIDIA graphics arrive, it is clear that the new generation offers a series of advantages over the previous one, the most notable being the price reduction compared to the launch of the RTX 40 in the mid-range and high-end versions, since the RTX 5090 is €500 more expensive as a base. In this regard, the recommendations we can give are quite simple, if we have to decide between choosing an RTX 40 about €50-100 cheaper because it is a previous generation or an RTX 50, it would be best to opt for the latter, especially if we talk the RTX 5080since it is the one that should have the smallest price difference with respect to the RTX 4080.
