NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

The GeForce RTX 4090 is the clear pick on raw spec strength, leading by 9.9 points on the Mars Score. The margin is wide enough that the underdog only makes sense if its individual strengths line up with what you specifically need.

Pick the GeForce RTX 4090 if you push the hardware — gaming, on-device AI, heavy multitasking — and the extra compute headroom is worth the trade-offs. The biggest gaps in its favor are cuda / stream cores, ray tracing cores, vram, among others. The single most decisive one: CUDA / Stream cores — 82.86% more. 16384 vs 8960.

Pick the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti if you care most about tdp. Its strongest claims are tdp. The single most decisive one: TDP — 150.00 W less. 300 vs 450.

Both ship with comparable dlss, so those specs do not separate the two — focus on the differences below.

Bottom line: the GeForce RTX 4090 is the safer default. The other model is the right choice only when its specific advantages line up with your priorities.