PNY RTX A4000
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PNY RTX A4000 is based on the NVIDIA RTX A4000 (Ampere) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (Blackwell) and has 32 GB GDDR7 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 1792 GB/s.

GPU

The PNY RTX A4000 has the GA104-875-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ampere architecture.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GB202-300-A1, which comes from the Blackwell architecture.
PNY RTX A4000 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA RTX A4000 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GA104-875-A1 GPU Chip GB202-300-A1
Ampere Architecture Blackwell
48 Streaming Multiprocessors 170
6144 Shader 21760
96 Render Output Units 176
192 Texture Units 680
48 Raytracing Cores 170

Memory

The graphics memory of the PNY RTX A4000 clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 28.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 32 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1792 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 512 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

0.735 GHz Base Clock 2.017 GHz
1.560 GHz Boost Clock 2.407 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PNY RTX A4000 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 140 W.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 575 W.

140 W TDP 575 W
-- TDP (up) 600 W
93 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PNY RTX A4000 is equipped with a total of 1 Radial main fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 55 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the PNY RTX A4000.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
4x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the PNY RTX A4000 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PNY RTX A4000 is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 5 x 16 Lanes interface.

243 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
500 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The PNY RTX A4000 has been manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers since Q3/2021.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition came on the market in Q1/2025 and will have a structure width of 5 nanometers manufactured.

VCNRTXA4000-PB Part-no --
Q3/2021 Release date Q1/2025
1,400 $ Launch Price 2,329 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

PNY RTX A4000 PNY RTX A4000
16 GB GDDR6
121807

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

PNY RTX A4000 PNY RTX A4000
16 GB GDDR6
83364

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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