Head to head

RTX 5090 vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

The RTX 5090 holds more — 32 GB against 16 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The RTX 5090 has more bandwidth at 1792 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 5090tok/sRTX 4060 Ti 16GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 222 Runs comfortably 33.6
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 2.65 Won't fit 1.17
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 478 Runs comfortably 74.8
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 1235 Runs comfortably 200
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 6.75 Won't fit 4.28
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 214 Runs comfortably 32.5
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 126 Runs comfortably 18.9
Qwen3 32B Runs comfortably 59.0 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 380 Runs comfortably 59.6
Qwen3 30B-A3B Runs comfortably 159 Won't fit 32.0
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.83 Won't fit 3.01
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Runs comfortably 59.0 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 247 Runs comfortably 37.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 2.50 Won't fit 1.13
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 405 Runs comfortably 63.6
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 151 Runs comfortably 22.8

Specifications

RTX 5090RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Memory32 GB16 GB
Bandwidth1792 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute209 TFLOPS44 TFLOPS
Launch price$1,999$499
ArchitectureBlackwellAda