Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
MSI · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
6 of 22 fields comparable
⇄ swap sidesNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders EditionMSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
Bandwidth GB S
1,008
1,792
Compute Capability Digits
89
120
MSRP (USD)
1,599
2,499
RTX 5090 Model
5,090
5,090
TDP (W)
450
600
VRAM (GB)
24
32
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition | MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth GB S | 1,008 | 1,792 |
| Compute Capability Digits | 89 | 120 |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 1,599 | 2,499 |
| RTX 5090 Model | 5,090 | 5,090 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 450 | 600 |
| VRAM (GB) | 24 | 32 |
| AIO Radiator MM | — | 360 |
| Budget Ceiling USD | 2,000 | — |
| Launch Price USD | — | 2,499.99 |
| Memory BUS Bits | — | 512 |
| Memory Speed Gbps | — | 28 |
| Model | — | G5090-32SLS (RTX 5090 32G SUPRIM LIQUID SOC) |
| Newegg Listing USD | — | 4,999.99 |
| Production END Reported | 2024-10 | — |
| Railgun Unlock Power Threshold | — | 80 |
| Recommended PSU Watts | — | 1,000 |
| RTX 4090 Model | 4,090 | — |
| Status | discontinued (no longer sold new by NVIDIA) | — |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-24 |
| Street Price Date | — | 2026-09-01 |
| Street Price USD Rtx5090 US Typical | — | 4,900 |
| TDP Watts Silent Mode | — | 575 |