RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 - GPU Benchmark Comparison

Direct performance comparison between the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 across 21 standardized AI benchmarks collected from our production fleet. Testing shows the RTX 5090 winning 18 out of 21 benchmarks (86% win rate), while the RTX 4090 wins 3 tests. All 21 benchmark results are automatically gathered from active rental servers, providing real-world performance data rather than synthetic testing.

LLM Inference Performance: RTX 5090 36% faster

In language model inference testing across 9 different models, the RTX 5090 is 36% faster than the RTX 4090 on average. For deepseek-r1:32b inference, the RTX 5090 achieves 71 tokens/s compared to RTX 4090's 45 tokens/s, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 59% advantage. Overall, the RTX 5090 wins 8 out of 9 LLM tests with an average 40% performance difference, making it the stronger choice for transformer model inference workloads.

Image Generation Performance: RTX 5090 154% faster

Evaluating AI image generation across 12 different Stable Diffusion models, the RTX 5090 is 154% faster than the RTX 4090 in this category. When testing sd3.5-large, the RTX 5090 completes generations at 12 s/image compared to RTX 4090's 56 s/image, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 385% advantage. Across all 12 image generation benchmarks, the RTX 5090 wins 10 tests with an average 154% performance difference, establishing it as the preferred GPU for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux deployments.

About These Benchmarks of RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090

Our benchmarks are collected automatically from servers having gpus of type RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 in our fleet using standardized test suites:

LLM Inference (Ollama & VLLM): Measures tokens per second of RTX 5090 compared to RTX 4090 for LLM inference using various models (Llama, Qwen, etc.) on both Ollama and VLLM with FP8 quantization
Image Generation: Measures images per minute and seconds per image for AI image generation on the RTX 5090 compared to RTX 4090
CPU: Single-core and multi-core operations per second representing GPU Servers you can rent with RTX 5090 or RTX 4090
NVMe: Read and write speeds in MB/s for storage performance on GPU Servers typically equipped with RTX 5090 or RTX 4090

Note: RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 AI Benchmark Results may vary based on system load, configuration, and specific hardware revisions. These benchmarks represent median values from multiple test runs of RTX 5090 and RTX 4090.