MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D with 24 GB GDDR6X and 14,592 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D by 56.88% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

30.1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

30.1

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Benchmarks Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +33% 32 ГБ
24 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR6X

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 +77% 1.79 TB/s
1.01 TB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 384 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 +62% 118.8 TFLOPS
73.54 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +62% 118.8 TFLOPS
73.54 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +62% 1.856 TFLOPS
1.1491 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +49% 21,760
14,592

RT Cores

🔥 +49% 170
114

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 +49% 170
114

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
8.9

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

2,017
🔥 +13% 2,280

Boost Clock

🔥 +8% 2,730
2,520

Memory Clock

🔥 +33% 1,750
1,313

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -43% 800 W

Power Connector

🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin
1x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -57% 425 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +49% 680
456

ROP

🔥 +49% 170
114

L2 Cache

🔥 +33% 96 MB
72 MB

Benchmarks

llama.cpp, llama 7B Q4_0

173.2 tokens/s

llama.cpp, llama-2-7b-Q4_0

191.6 tokens/s

Geekbench AI, FP16

52 735 points

Geekbench AI, INT8

28 261 points

Geekbench AI, FP32

37 499 points

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Triple-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 Dec. 28, 2023

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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